Prewriting OUTLINES Outlining Your Essay FOCUSING YOUR TOPIC

FOCUSING YOUR TOPIC So you’ve narrowed your broad SUBJECT Down to a focused TOPIC

GENERATING IDEAS Now you’ll need material to support that Thesis. This will be the

ELIMINATING & SELECTING Now that you have ideas on paper, you can ◦ “trim

ELIMINATING & SELECTING Eliminate, cross out, delete ◦ the poor ideas ◦ the irrelevant

SELECTING & ORDERING From the remaining list of quality ideas chose the best 3

ORDERING Lastly, arrange these premium ideas in the “EMPHATIC ORDER” ◦ putting last the

OUTLINING Now it’s time to draft your OUTLINE THESIS: 1. I. POINT #1 A.

OUTLINING THESIS STATEMENT: ◦ At the top of the Outline page write your Thesis

OUTLINING MAIN IDEAS: ◦ The Roman Numerals indicate your Main Ideas ◦ each main

OUTLINING SUPPORT: ◦ Beneath each Main Point ◦ List your means of Support use

OUTLINING OUTLINE: ◦ ◦ ◦ An Outline for a 5 -paragraph essay should look

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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 2

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 3

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 4

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 5

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. 6

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

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

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 9

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 10

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 11

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