Adding context to basic claims/making more specific and full of depth

1. Start simple:  S-V-O

• People must learn to work hard ( A generic claim for advice essay.)

2. Then, to make more thoughtful:

• What people?
• What does work hard mean?

3.  Expand the subject anew

• Those who want to be economically successful  = people

4. Expand the object

• Working longer hours than others and taking on extra projects =Ways of working hard 

New topic sentence:

Those who want to be economically successful must learn to work longer hours than others and take on extra projects.   

• See how one shows more thought to the reader; the second shows a clearer point. Plus, now you can brainstorm clearer examples to fit that point because you've given yourself a focus...

Now, your paragraph has other questions to answer to support that clear claim

• What are reasons working long hours matter?
• What does taking in larger projects show?

• What is an example of you or someone you know taking on extra hours or extra projects?
• What were the results of that effort?