ABSTRACT
Competing or interrelated ideas can often seem equally important and/or inseparable, and therefore difficult to treat systematically. The 1951 Convention does not set out an unconditional ‘right to asylum’ because states would not have agreed this extent of loss of sovereignty over the asylum issue and thus their borders. The ideas and grammatical units contained within an ideal paragraph, like the essay as a whole, should resemble an upturned Christmas Cracker. The topic sentence is the first sentence of each paragraph and is a crucial tool to use if we want to structure our essay in a logical manner. Topic sentences are clearer when observing the topic to provable opinion/argument sequence because the reader is led, much like in the introduction, from the general to the specific, from the given information to the new.
