Which is the topic sentence of the following paragraph?

Determining the order of ideas in a paragraph is essential to producing a clear and understandable paragraph. A writer who aimlessly presents ideas the reader will not be very successful in presenting his or her ideas. Topic sentences help writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea. Adding support is key.

a)
Determining the order of ideas in a paragraph is essential to producing a clear and understandable paragraph.

b)
Topic sentences help writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

c)
A writer who aimlessly presents ideas the reader will not be very successful in presenting his or her ideas.

d)
Adding support is key.

consonance, it has the repetition of the consonants in stressed syllables with different vowel sounds.

word count 168

serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.