Using Supporting Phrases to Strengthen Your Writing

This lesson teaches how to extend a topic and explain an opinion using supporting phrases. It reviews the boxes and bullets outline method and highlights common mistakes, such as using incomplete sentences. The lesson provides two steps to improve paragraph flow: writing a strong topic sentence and using supporting phrases before evidence. Examples are given to illustrate how these techniques can create a cohesive and strong paragraph. The lesson concludes with a review of the steps learned.

Describe a common mistake writers make when using a boxes and bullets outline.

Provide an example of how to rewrite a paragraph using supporting phrases.