"Which one is the topic sentence?"

Last Wednesday, we had a workshop with some snacks given by our kindest lecturer, Miss Vita. Hehe:D. We reviewed our friend’s work about comparison and contrast paragraph. While we were reviewing it, the snacks accompanied us. Haha. Maybe, if all of our lecturers are like Miss Vita, we will always attend the class, wherever and whenever. Hehehe… Am I sure???

Last Friday, September 28, 2012, we had some presentations about some types of paragraph. There were 6 presenters, they are:

1.     Achi

She presented about definition paragraph. She was almost like me because she just showed us her paragraph and we answered what the type of paragraph that was. Our answer and hers are same, definition paragraph.

2.     Aris

He presented about argumentative paragraph. But his paragraph consisted of several paragraphs because he gave space in his paragraph by himself. The reasons and the supporting sentences were separated. Perhaps, he wanted his friends (us) easily understand about the basic of his paragraph. The topic sentence that he chose was wrong. He looked confused. The first sentence in his paragraph was not the appropriate topic sentence. And the definite position in the last paragraph was not appropriate, too.

3.     Rois

He presented about cause and effect paragraph. Some of our friends disagreed that the paragraph was cause and effect. Maybe, because the paragraph just explained the effects in details, they thought that it was not cause and effect. We didn’t realize that the cause in the topic sentence was clear. We knew that the purposes of cause and effect are to explain causes, effects, or both. So, where there is cause, there is effect.

4.     Ima

She presented about argumentative paragraph, but her opinion was not as same as our thinking. We think that the paragraph was report because it informed the reader about the topic, midwife training.

5.     Aida Kajol

She presented about cause and effect paragraph. And everybody agreed that the paragraph was cause and effect.

6.     Aida

She presented about illustration paragraph. But when she chose the topic sentence, it didn’t support the supporting sentence. The whole paragraph told about Craig Jones  as the writer’s true friend.

From the presentations, we know that the topic sentence is not always in the beginning or the last paragraph. The supporting sentence must support the topic sentence. For cause and effect, the purposes are to explain causes, effects, or both. So, where there is cause, there is effect.