5. A student has asked Professor Norman how to write a good introduction paragraph. Which of the following details would not support Professor Norman's response to the student?

You will also want to make sure you have time to edit your essay.

Explanation:

The options you were given are the following:

What the student needs is information on how to write a good introduction paragraph. Including background information, a thesis statement, and an interesting opening are all good advice on how an introduction should be written. The only advice that does not fit is the second one - that the student should make sure to have enough time to edit their essay. That is not relevant to what a proper introduction paragraph should look like.

Thus, the correct answer is: You will also want to make sure you have time to edit your essay.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.