MAIN IDEA Supporting Detail OBJECTIVES 1 To identify

MAIN IDEA • Supporting Detail

OBJECTIVES 1. To identify main ideas and supporting details for use in a topic outline 2. To define parallelism, subordination, and division as they relate to outlines 3. To create a topic outline based on a given reading

WHAT IS AN OUTLINE? • An outline presents a picture of the main ideas and the supporting details of any subject. • An outline has hierarchical structure: it starts with the most general idea and gets increasingly more specific as needed.

PURPOSES OF OUTLINES • To show what a topic includes, how topics are related to each other, and the relative importance of topics within a piece of writing • To convey the general plan of the material included in a speech or written work • To organize thoughts during the pre-writing process

KINDS OF OUTLINES • Topic: Headings are expressed as single words or brief phrases • Sentence: All headings are written in complete sentences

TERMS • Division: When a main idea is divided, it should be divided into two or more sub points. No sub point stands alone. • Subordination: The information in the headings should be more general, while the information in the subheadings should be more specific • Parallelism: Each heading should take the same grammatical form.

THE APPLE ANALOGY q Division q Subordination q Parallelism

OUTLINE FORMAT TITLE Thesis: Instead of outlining the introduction, write out thesis statement in sentence form. I. MAIN IDEA A. Supporting detail B. Another Supporting Detail 1. Even more detail 2. Even more detail II. MAIN IDEA A. Supporting detail 1. Even more detail 2. Even more detail B. Supporting Detail III. MAIN IDEA…

GETTING SPECIFIC I. MAIN IDEA A. Supporting detail B. Another Supporting Detail 1. Even more detail 2. Even more detail a. More specific yet b. More specific yet (1) Very specific (2) Very specific (a) super specific (b) super specific

PRACTICE • Cat Essay üclasswork • Camping Essay ühomework

SUMMARY TOPIC OUTLINES I. PARTS A. Main Ideas B. Supporting Details II. TERMS A. Parallelism B. Subordination C. Division III. Creation A. Cat essay B. Camping essay

NEXT CLASS • Converting topic outlines to sentence outlines • Making a pre-writing outline

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