Today's class was calm. We discussed some of the information pertaining to stage two in the writing process. Stage two deals with writing the controlling idea and organizing and developing support. We learned that an effective controlling statement is also known as the topic sentence for your paragraph and our thesis has both a subject and a focus. The subject is what we write about and the focus is what we intend to do with out subject. To help better our knowlegde of stage two, we practice exercises one and three in the book.