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Example:

There are three reasons why Canada is one of the best

countries in the world. First, Canada has an excellent

health care system. All Canadians have access to medical

services at a reasonable price. Second, Canada has a high

standard of education. Students are taught by well-

trained teachers and are encouraged to continue

studying at university. Finally, Canada's cities are clean

and efficiently managed. Canadian cities have many

parks and lots of space for people to live. As a result,

Canada is a desirable place to live.

Supporting Details

What are supporting sentences?

They come after the topic sentence, making up the body

of a paragraph.

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What do they do?

They give details to develop and support the main idea

of the paragraph.

How do I write them?

You should give supporting facts, details, and examples.

Example:

There are three reasons why Canada is one of the best

countries in the world. First, Canada has an excellent

health care system. All Canadians have access to medical

services at a reasonable price. Second, Canada has a high

standard of education. Students are taught by well-

trained teachers and are encouraged to continue

studying at university. Finally, Canada's cities are clean

and efficiently managed. Canadian cities have many

parks and lots of space for people to live. As a result,

Canada is a desirable place to live.

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Closing Sentence

What is the closing sentence?

The closing sentence is the last sentence in a paragraph.

What does it do?

It restates the main idea of your paragraph.

How do I write one?

Restate the main idea of the paragraph using different

words.

Example:

There are three reasons why Canada is one of the best

countries in the world. First, Canada has an excellent

health care system. All Canadians have access to medical

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services at a reasonable price. Second, Canada has a high

standard of education. Students are taught by well-

trained teachers and are encouraged to continue

studying at university. Finally, Canada's cities are clean

and efficiently managed. Canadian cities have many

parks and lots of space for people to live. As a result,

Canada is a desirable place to live.

SAMPLE PARAGRAPH

For a (neo) idealist, the sovereign nation-state is not just

a political state, but also a social state. Indeed,

government is the formal institutional expression of

social relations within a state. If state is organized in a

good way, then it can organize its domestic social

relations so that moral progress can occur within it.

What is a good form of state organization for a (neo)

idealist, and how can this good form of state

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organization enable moral progress in its domestic

society? For a (neo) idealist, the best form of

governmental organization is democracy.

Democracy is the best form of organization because it is

the least restrictive on its people. It is the least

repressive. It is the form of governance that most

encourages freedom of expression among its people.

Democracy is government by the people. So, the voice of

any democratic sovereign nation-state is really the

collective voice of the people.