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Read The Assignment Guidelines Carefully.: How To Make An Outline?

The document provides instructions for making an outline. It advises the reader to carefully read assignment guidelines, develop a topic through prewriting exercises like listing ideas, freewriting, clustering or questioning, identify the purpose and audience, and develop a thesis statement that is arguable and provides enough detail. An outline should include an introduction with an attention-grabbing sentence and thesis statement, a body with main ideas and evidence to support each one, and a conclusion with a restatement of the thesis and concluding thought.

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Read The Assignment Guidelines Carefully.: How To Make An Outline?

The document provides instructions for making an outline. It advises the reader to carefully read assignment guidelines, develop a topic through prewriting exercises like listing ideas, freewriting, clustering or questioning, identify the purpose and audience, and develop a thesis statement that is arguable and provides enough detail. An outline should include an introduction with an attention-grabbing sentence and thesis statement, a body with main ideas and evidence to support each one, and a conclusion with a restatement of the thesis and concluding thought.

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HOW TO MAKE AN OUTLINE?

Read the assignment guidelines carefully. Highlight or underline important words and
phrases in the instructions. Make sure that you fully understand what the instructor is asking you
to do before you begin your outline. Ask for clarification if anything seems vague or confusing.

Develop a topic. Although outlining a paper can help you to develop and organize your ideas,
you may need to do some other prewriting exercises to get started.[1]There are many useful
prewriting strategies that can help you to generate ideas for your paper.
 List all the ideas that come to mind (good or bad) and then look over the list you have made and
group similar ideas together. Expand those lists by adding onto the list or by using another
prewriting activity. [2]
 Freewriting. Write nonstop for about 5-10 minutes. Write whatever comes to mind and don’t edit
yourself. When you are done, review what you have written and highlight or underline the most
useful information. Repeat the freewriting exercise using this information as a starting point. You
can repeat this exercise multiple times to continue to refine and develop your ideas. [3]
 Clustering. Write your subject down on the center of a piece of paper and circle it. Then draw
three or more lines extending from the circle. At the end of each of the lines you have drawn,
write down a new idea that corresponds to your main idea. Then draw three or more lines from
each of those new ideas, and write ideas that corresponds to those ideas. Continue developing
[4]
your cluster until you feel that you have explored as many connections as you can.
 Questioning. On a piece of paper, write out “Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?” Space
the questions about two or three lines apart so that you can write your answers on these lines.
Respond to each questions in as much detail as you can. This exercise will help develop your
ideas and identify areas of your topic that you need to learn more about. [5]

Identify your purpose. Ask yourself what you want to accomplish with your paper. Are you
writing this paper in order to persuade, entertain, enlighten, or something else? Just make sure
that your purpose is in line with what the assignment asks you to do. Look for keywords in the
assignment guidelines to help you figure out what your purpose should be.

Identify your audience. Think about who will read your paper. Your instructor? classmates?
strangers? Identify the needs and expectations of your audience by considering what they do
and do not know about your topic. Anticipate their reactions as well. How they might react to the
information that you will be sharing with them? Will they be angry, sad, amused, or something
else?

Develop your thesis. Once you have developed your ideas and considered your purpose and
audience, you should be ready to write a thesis statement.[8] Effective thesis statements
express the main focus of a paper and state an arguable claim. A thesis should not be more
than one sentence in length. [9]
 Make sure your thesis is arguable. Do not state facts or matters of taste. For example,
something like "George Washington was the first president of the United States," would not be a
good thesis because it states a fact. Likewise, "Die Hard is a great movie," would not work
because it expresses a matter of taste.[10]
 Make sure your thesis provides enough detail. In other words, avoid simply saying that
something is "good" or "effective" and say what specifically makes it "good" or "effective

I. Introduction

A. Sentence attract the attention of your readers


B. One-sentence statement to be proved

II. Body

A. First main idea:


1. Corroborative evidence for the main idea
2. One or two more supporting shreds of evidence
B. Second main idea:
1. Corroborative evidence for the second main idea
2. One or two more supporting shreds of evidence
C. Third main idea:
1. Corroborative evidence for the third main idea
2. One or two more supporting shreds of evidence

III. Conclusion

A. Revision of your thesis


B. Insightful sentence to end your essay.
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