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Ways of Paragraph Development Unity and Coherence of a paragraph It seems impossible for television programs to give anything but a falsely romantic account of doctors’ lives. Currently there are four medical dramas on prime-time TV. These programs are immensely popular, but only a fool would mistake their heroes for the typical real-life physicians. A doctor on the screen is always well-meaning, handsome and self-sacrificing. He (rarely she) also has plenty of free time to solve other people’s intimate, non-medical problems. Perhaps the most unrealistic point is that the television doctor always happens to have only one patient to care for during each episode of the show. Real doctors must wince with envy—that is, if they are not too exhausted to watch the program at all. Topic sentence in a paragraph Topic sentence often acts like tiny thesis statement. As a thesis statement, a topic sentence makes a claim of some sort. As the thesis statement is the unifying force in the essay, so the topic sentence must be the unifying force in the paragraph. Further, as is the case with the thesis statement, when the topic sentence makes a claim, the paragraph which follows must expand, describe, or prove it in some way. Topic sentences make a point and give reasons or examples to support it. Although topic sentences may appear anywhere in a body paragraph, in academic essays they often appear at the beginning. Development of a paragraph: 1）主题句解答法 根据给出的主题句或自己写出的主题句，先用why或how设问，然后把段落主题句视为一个总的问题，用解释、讨论或描述等方式来给予解答。这样，段落展开过程就变为设问和答问，而问与答的方式将极大程度上减轻思维负担。以下面的段落为例： Spring Festival is the traditional festival for all Chinese. (How?) It comes at the end of the lunar year and lasts for about 15 days. The Spring Festival eve is the time when families in China enjoy the reunion of the family members with delicious dishes, wines, and fireworks, (what?) chatting about the past days and expecting the lucky New Year. Years ago, CCTV began to present the Spring Festival Get-together to Chin