Braddock Article

I just finished reading the Braddock article about topic sentences. I'm reflecting on the reading, trying to figure out what new information I walked away with. The answer is none. First of all, the previous research material that he referenced in his study is far too antiquated and has been disproven for decades. I do agree with his conclusion that we should not teach our students that the "topic sentence" must be the first sentence of a paragraph, but I find that his methodology was really bizarre. To put students work into your own words and create an outline of what you think they are trying to articulate seems unnecessarily time consuming, and not at all fair to the students. I did not like this essay at all.