What is the relationship between topic and structural paragraph?
by Judith Uhlemann
If you consider this question you might ask yourself what is a topic and what is a structural paragraph.
A topic is the main idea a discourse deals with. In other words, it represents what is being talked or written about in a discourse. It is therefore the question of immediate concern.
Hence, a written discourse can deal with more than one topic these ideas have to be structured in some way. To mark this topic shift the structural paragraph plays a certain role.
A structural paragraph consists of the topic and further information, thoughts, or ideas about this topic.
Here you can see how such a structural paragraph might look like.
Therefore the topic and the structural paragraph are closely connected to each other.
If you want further information about topic and paragraphs, I recommend you this video from an academic of the Massey University. He gives very detailed information of how a paragraph is structured and the role of the topic in a paragraph.
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