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The controlling idea of a paper is its _____.

thesis
topic sentence
transition
paraphrase

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I'm pretty sure it's topic sentence! Hope this helps u!
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Thesis,

Thesis statement is the controlling idea of an essay. It is called a controlling idea because the thesis statement controls all the supporting evidence that will go in each paragraph in the body of the essay.

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