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The Essay Outline

The Essay Outline. Creating an Essay Outline for Persuasive Research Papers. What is an Outline?. You create an outline (usually in your head) when you are planning your essay. For major essays, you must construct formal outlines, which include: Your main idea (thesis);

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The Essay Outline

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  1. The Essay Outline Creating an Essay Outline for Persuasive Research Papers

  2. What is an Outline? • You create an outline (usually in your head) when you are planning your essay. • For major essays, you must construct formal outlines, which include: • Your main idea (thesis); • Your subordinate points (the main idea of each paragraph); • Your supporting details (the content of each paragraph) • In your head, it might look something like this:

  3. Essay: The All-Time • Best Superheroes

  4. Planning Your Essay: Introduction and Conclusion

  5. Planning Your Essay: The Subordinate Points

  6. Planning Your Essay: The Subordinate Points

  7. Parallelism Notice the first word in each supporting detail is the same verb tense? This is parallelism.

  8. Expanding on the Supporting Details:

  9. Expanding on the Supporting Details:

  10. Creating Your Essay Outline Step One: The Bare Bones

  11. Notice how each subordinate point is indicated with an UPPERCASE ROMAN NUMERAL? Perry 1 Essay Title Pagination: In the final product, the outline appears on the first page of the essay, along with an abstract. The All-Time Best Superheroes Introduction Superman Batman Iron Man Spider-Man Conclusion Subordinate Points

  12. Creating Your Essay Outline Step Two: Thesis and Re-Stated Thesis

  13. Perry 1 The All-Time Best Superheroes • Introduction • Throughout comic book history, many superheroes have come and gone, but few have the impact of Superman, Batman, Iron Man, and the amazing Spider-Man. • Superman • Batman • Iron Man • Spider-Man • Conclusion • Heroes such as Superman, Batman, Iron Man and Spider-Man have stood the test of time and remain relevant and pure icons. THESIS Notice how both the thesis and re-stated thesis are INDENTED? RE-STATED THESIS

  14. Creating Your Essay Outline Step Three: Filling in Supporting Details

  15. Perry 1 The All-Time Best Superheroes • Introduction • Throughout comic book history, many superheroes have come and gone, but few have the impact of Superman, Batman, Iron Man, and the amazing Spider-Man. • Superman • Is faster than a speeding bullet • Can leap tall buildings in a single bound • Is stronger than a locomotive • Batman • Iron Man • Spider-Man • Conclusion • Heroes such as Superman, Batman, Iron Man and Spider-Man have stood the test of time and remain relevant and pure icons. Remember which of these supporting details included more details? Indent

  16. Perry 1 The All-Time Best Superheroes • Introduction • Throughout comic book history, many superheroes have come and gone, but few have the impact of Superman, Batman, Iron Man, and the amazing Spider-Man. • Superman • Is faster than a speeding bullet. • Can leap tall buildings in a single bound. • Is stronger than a locomotive. • Turned the earth’s rotation backwards • Stopped an airliner from crashing • Beat up a locomotive • Batman • Iron Man Indent Indent

  17. In larger papers, you may have to expand even further: • Superman • Is faster than a speeding bullet • Can leap tall buildings in a single bound • Is stronger than a locomotive • Turned the earth’s rotation backwards • Stopped an airliner from crashing • The wings fell off the plane • Lois Lane was inside • The pilots passed out from lack of oxygen • Beat up a locomotive • Batman In larger papers, you may have to further expand on your expanded supporting details. Indent

  18. Let’s Complete the Outline for Batman: • Batman • Owns the night in Gotham City • Crime is at an all-time low • Villains are all in custody • Night is afraid of bats • Stands up for the downtrodden of society • Relies only on his wits and a very cool bat-suit

  19. Now Iron Man: • Iron Man • Made his awesome suit out of empty tin cans • Tuna • Stewed Tomatoes • Campbell’s Soup • Miller Light • Flew from New York City to Los Angeles in four minutes • Was the one responsible for the apprehension of the Kingpin

  20. Spider-Man: • Spider-Man • Does whatever a spider can • Spins a web – any size • Catches thieves just like flies • Outwitted Doctor Octopus • Outlasted the Green Goblin • Out-punched the Sandman • Out-romanced Harry Osborn • Arrives just in time

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