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Brannan: A Writer's Workshop
A Writer's Workshop: Crafting Paragraphs, Building Essays
Bob Brannan, Johnson County Community College
Illustrating through Examples

Glossary

connector  a word or phrase that ties ideas together, helping the reader move smoothly from thought to thought
illustration  a pattern of essay or paragraph development: giving examples to illustrate a certain point
order of importance  a method of organizing examples in which examples are placed from the least important to the most important
subtopic sentence  a sentence within a paragraph or essay that introduces each major example








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