Schaffer Paragraph Topic Sentence Subject + Opinion My Client is innocent. Subject: Client Opinion: Innocent

Schaffer Paragraph Concrete Detail Evidence Fact Supports your opinion in your Topic Sentence I would like the jury to look at piece of evidence number 1, an airport security video showing my client boarding an Alaska Airlines flight to Hawaii two hours before the robbery occurred.

Schaffer Paragraph Commentary Explanation Elaboration Opinion If my client boarded the plane that means he was on the plane.

Schaffer Paragraph Commentary Reflection Evaluation Connect the concrete detail to the topic sentence If my client was on the plane flying over the Pacific Ocean he could not have been at the bank on 84 th and Pacific at the same time.

Schaffer Paragraph Concrete Detail Evidence Fact Supports your opinion but it is different from the first concrete detail. Please look at the second piece of evidence, my clients bank statement which shows a checking balance of just under a million dollars.

Schaffer Paragraph Commentary Connect your evidence to your thesis. He had no need for the 5000 dollars that was stolen.

Schaffer Paragraph Commentary This is your thinking. No one with close to a million dollars in the bank would risk spending the rest of his or her life in prison for a mere 5000 dollars.

Schaffer paragraph Sentence 1 :Topic Sentence Sentence 2: Concrete Detail #1 Sentence 3: Commentary #1 Sentence 4: Commentary #2 Sentence 5: Concrete Detail #2 Sentence 6: Commentary #1 Sentence 7: Commentary #2 Sentence 8: Conclusion…