In order to write a good topic sentence about this issue,
you first need to know what you are going to say about the issue. You need to know what
your arguments are and then sum them up in your topic
sentence.
For example, let's say that you want to argue
that solar power is an important way to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil. If
that were your argument, you might say something like
this:
Today, America gets much of its oil and natural gas
from places with oppressive and possibly unstable governments. If we do not use solar
power, we will have to rely more and more on such governments to provide us with the
energy we need.
These sentences show what you
are going to talk about in your paragraph without actually getting into details. The
rest of your paragraph can fill in those details, talking about where our oil and gas
come from and what kinds of governments they have.
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