16.1 Expansion中级英语写作.pdf

How to support a topic sentence? —expansion explanation Support • Expansion • Explanation • Illustration Expansion • adding more information or details to the claim as encapsulated in the topic sentence. Stating from different perspectives • Eg. Whatever one does, one should do it with diligence. If one is not diligent, there is little possibility that one would ever achieve anything, especially when one is dealing with a tough j ob. This truth seems to be self -evident. Classification of concepts • We should make the best use of our land. In cities, careful and elaborate city plan should be carried out. In the countryside, farmers should be educated to use the land wisely. Moreover, the government should reinforce the laws to punish those who waste the land. Subtopics + expansion • Third, the process of urbanization distances people in cities from those in the countryside. Urbanization makes citizens think highly of themselves. Some of them even look down upon the countrymen. They think peasants are not well-educated or smart at all. On the other hand, rural people don’t like citizens, either. They think citizens go around with their noses in the air, and they are all worshippers of money. Hence, the gap between them is getting bigger and bigger. Quoting famous people/ citing popular sayings • Such tales are becoming abundantly familiar as American parents are forced to make room for their adult children. “There is a naï ve notion that children grow up and leave home when they’re 18, and the truth is far from that,” says sociologist Larry Bumpass of the University of Wisconsin- Madison.