Revise your multi-paragraph explanatory essay using formal writing style, technical language, and transitional words. Use the following checklist to ensure that all the requirements are in place: Underline the thesis statement in the introductory paragraph.
Underline the topic sentence in each body paragraph.
Circle the supporting evidence used in the body paragraphs.
Count the number of transition words used in each paragraph.
Underline the restatement in the concluding paragraph.

Spawned during their trek from the ocean, the color of their bodies have been transformed from silver to deep scarlet. This sentence talks about the salmon, because they are a silver like and live in the ocean but once they are ready to reproduce, they turn red and they swim up the river. More than once, we drove around a curve and came up upon moose beside the road. The size of these animals is scary... They just chew their cud and watch us go by.

The topic sentence of this paragraph tells us how the author sees the big moose beside the road, and how stunning that is. Remember a moose can be around 6.5 feet tall. At one point we exit the highway . we drive a few miles and come face - to face face with an ancient millions of years old glacier and the icebergs that it calves. We see icebergs as big as houses in a - above - freezing lake within walking distances/ of the highway. by Alaska . The Kenai Peninsula . Summer. Wow. This last paragraph describes the amazing, and extraordinary, feeling that the author has when he/she sees the glacier from his car and how close it is. 3. write the idea that all the topic sentences have in common: All the topic sentences describe the sight that the author has from his car and how splendid, and close, nature is.