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Research question: I need to know what characteristics of a cat are used to classify it as a particular breed. Thesis: Cats are classified into ...
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Slide 1:How to Do the Descriptive Outline for the I-Search
Slide 2:Review: These are the Sections of the I-Search Search question
the introduction (which you’ve done)
Search process
the story of how you found your sources (which you’ve done)
What I Learned
the presentation of the research
What This Means to Me
how this assignment changed you as a writer/researcher
Slide 3:Here are links to a couple of student I-Search essays Look over them to remind yourself of the final form:
Way to Blow
Cat Factors
Slide 4:The most important thing to remember in writing your outline is. . . The thesis sentence of your outline. . . . . .answers your research question
Slide 5:For example, in the two sample essays mentioned a couple of slides ago. . .
Slide 7:Thus, the research question and the thesis in the What I Learned section are. . .
Slide 8:How to Do the Descriptive Outline
Slide 9:Step One Write down the research question that you finally settled on:
It may not be the same question you started with;
If as you’ve researched, you’ve had to change the question to satisfy what you want to know, that’s fine.
Slide 11:Step Two Thinking about your research, answer the research question you just wrote in a single sentence with two to four parts;
It should look like a previewing thesis sentence.
Slide 13:Step Three: Use your previewing thesis
to write a topic sentence/general outline
Slide 15:Step Four For each topic sentence,
write two or three generalizations
that explain or clarify the information given in the topic sentence.
Slide 17:Step Five For each generalization,
locate a couple of sources from your research that prove or support the generalization;
insert those URLs under the generalization
Slide 19:Use a variety of sources for each point;
Don’t develop a topic sentence by using just one or two sources, even if they’re really good sources;
Try not to use the same source back-to-back