Argument Essay 'The Birthmark'

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In my argument essay I used examples as one of my expository strategies. I gave examples of past events in my essay to help the reader understand my point of view. In the short story “The Birthmark”, I used analysis to make the story clearer, so I could fully understand the text and write about it.
A thesis asserts the main idea of your topic or argument of your paper, and a topic sentence starts a paragraph and gives the reader an idea of what the paragraph will be about. Both of these are alike by being single sentences. They also both give a statement that expresses a certain perspective or idea about a subject. The topic sentence and the thesis both unify the paper so it doesn’t stray away from the main idea. A difference between the two

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