You have learned four specific ways to develop expository
paragraphs and have practiced each method. Topic sentences have
been provided for you. When you write other assignments, you
will write your own topic sentences and choose your own methods
of development. The method you choose to develop a paragraph
depends upon your purpose in writing. Facts may be included in
any paragraph, but a paragraph developed mainly by facts answers
the questions who? what? when? where? and how? Consider, for
example, the following sentence about George Washington: George
Washington (who?) was named head of the Continental Army (what?)
in 1775 (when?) in Philadelphia (where?) by an act of the Second
Continental Congress (how?). When you generalize about a group
or an idea, develop your paragraph with examples. Paragraphs
developed mainly with examples answer who specifically? what
specifically? where specifically? when specifically? or how
specifically? A topic sentence about fathers (generalization)
could be illustrated with