第89页 Chapter 12/ Basic Structure

#The Topic Sentence
  (1) concise and emphatic
  ~The Big Bull Market was dead.
  (2) rhetorical questions (a short piece of writing)
  ~What then is the modern view of Joan's voice and messages from God?
  (3) fragment, the grammatically incomplete sentence (be used with restraint)
  ~Spring. How perfect its fanfare. No trumpets or drums could ever have so triumphantly announced the presence of royalty. I stood marvelling in their wake until, cold, I returned to the firs to see what else I could summon up.

#Sentences as the Analytic Elements of a Paragraph
  ~Topic: increasing intellectual complexity
  Plan: list several causes
  First cause: larger area
  Second cause: science
  Third cause: machine production
  Fourth cause: intellectual revolt, two forms, qualification, specification of the two forms