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Prewriting: OUTLINES

Prewriting: OUTLINES. Outlining Your Essay. FOCUSING YOUR TOPIC. So you’ve narrowed your broad SUBJECT Down to a focused TOPIC And you’ve established your MAIN IDEA And you’ve drafted a THESIS STATEMENT. GENERATING IDEAS. Now you’ll need material to support that Thesis.

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Prewriting: OUTLINES

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  1. Prewriting: OUTLINES Outlining Your Essay

  2. FOCUSING YOUR TOPIC So you’ve narrowed your broadSUBJECT Down to a focusedTOPIC And you’ve established your MAIN IDEA And you’ve drafted a THESIS STATEMENT

  3. GENERATING IDEAS Now you’ll need material to support that Thesis. This will be the raw material for your OUTLINE. To generate ideas: BRAINSTORM FREEWRITE

  4. ELIMINATING & SELECTING Now that you have ideas on paper, you can “trim the fat” or “separate the wheat from the chaff” or “find the diamonds in the rough.” Your goal in selecting is to choose the best ideas that support your thesis. If they don’t back up Then you must leave out

  5. ELIMINATING & SELECTING Eliminate, cross out, delete the poor ideas the irrelevant ideas those that don’t support your Thesis Keep, circle, select the quality, excellent ideas the unique, interesting, fresh ideas those relevant and supportive of your Thesis

  6. SELECTING & ORDERING From the remaining list of quality ideas chose the best 3-5 ideas Then narrow that list down again to the best 3.

  7. ORDERING Lastly, arrange these premium ideas in the “EMPHATIC ORDER” putting last the “most important” or “most significant”

  8. OUTLINING Now it’s time to draft your OUTLINE. • OUTLINE • THESIS: • I. POINT #1 • A. SUPPORT • B. SUPPORT • II. POINT #2 • A. SUPPORT • B. SUPPORT • III. POINT #3 • A. SUPPORT • B. SUPPORT

  9. OUTLINING THESIS STATEMENT: At the top of the Outline page write your Thesis in a complete sentence NUMBERED LIST: Then take the numbered ideas from the previous Brainstorming Exercise and list them here in Emphatic Order use Roman numerals

  10. OUTLINING MAIN IDEAS: The Roman Numerals indicate your Main Ideas each main idea = single paragraph MAIN IDEA = Reason Type or Role Similarity or Difference Cause or Effect

  11. OUTLINING SUPPORT: Beneath each Main Point List your means of Support use capital letters for each TYPES of SUPPORT Examples, instances Stats, Anecdotes Quotes from experts

  12. OUTLINING OUTLINE: An Outline for a 5-paragraph essay should look something like this: Each point = a Body paragraph • OUTLINE • THESIS: • I. POINT #1 • A. SUPPORT • B. SUPPORT • II. POINT #2 • A. SUPPORT • B. SUPPORT • III. POINT #3 • A. SUPPORT • B. SUPPORT

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