The Perfect Paper
Simple Power Writing
- Every paragraph has a topic sentence.
- Topic sentences are declarative sentences that make a claim.
- Every sentence in the paragraph works for the topic sentence.
Definitions, Explications, Examples
Getting All the Basics Right
- Quoted passages get full references with page number (Ryan 2012:23).
- Periods and commas "go inside quotation marks."
- Unless there is "a reference" (Ryan 2012:29).
- Contractions are not used. We spell out "isn't" and "it's" and "can't" and "won't" and all the others.