CONTENT FOR TOPIC SENTENCE
What fits together? Why?
#3 #5  #8  #9
#4 #7  #10  #11
#1 #6 #12
3 PARAGRAPHS
European and Muslim contact and impressions of Africa
Contacts and impressions of China
Patterns of trade and contacts between regions, attempt to change
POSSIBLE GROUPINGS
Now let’s see how the documents can fit together to form the body of your essay:
•The first group of documents involves European and Muslim impressions of Africa
•The next group is related to China
•The last group documents focuses on conversions and relocations as “consequences” of trade
These groupings provide you with the content for three paragraphs that can form the body of your essay. Your next step is to form a topic sentence based on the categories of the groupings and to explain why each of the documents in the grouping is relevant. After this, all that’s left is to compose your thesis (opening) paragraph and your concluding paragraph.