State.
a) STATE a thesis on your topic.
Example: Love is not a fleeting romantic vision; it is an endless demonstration of stubborn loyalty, for love bears, hopes, and endures all things.
Note: the presence of three prongs in the thesis: bears, hopes, and endures. Each prong can develop into the topic of each of the body paragraphs.
b) STATE a topic sentence for the first body paragraph.
Example: Love bears the weight of worry, sickness, and tragedy.
Note: the first prong of the thesis is used--the ”bear” part--to create the first topic sentence. Attempt to model this.
c) STATE a topic sentence for the second body paragraph.
Example: Beyond bearing the weight of trouble and challenges, love also exists to revel in the hope of things to come.
Note: the dependent clause that opens this sentence provides a transition from the topic of the previous paragraph and that the second prong -- the “hope” part -- appears in this sentence. Attempt to model this.
d) STATE a topic sentence for the third body paragraph.
Example: While bearing the weight of things and hoping for the future only speak of instances of love, the final aspect that defines love is its ability to endure.
Note: the dependent clause that opens this sentence provides a transition from the topics of paragraphs 1 and 2 and that the third prong -- the “endures” part -- appears in this sentence. Attempt to model this.