Outlining Your Essay

1. Outlining Your Essay

2. Prompt Social networking is controversial, and yet, is a daily aspect of modern, global society. Identify ONE popular social networking tool and provide relevant information. The information you provide should include the following, but not be limited to: 1.) Purpose/motivation for use and Target user, 2.) Positive effects of, 3.) Negative effects of Your expository essay should include: An Introduction that establishes the topic and includes a well-defined claim (yours), Develops the subject with relevant evidence and examples, Uses relevant citations from the article, Social Media Butterflies, and another source(s), Includes the use of appropriate statistics developed from the in class surveys/blog, Use of a visual (a chart, pictograph, or graph), Some personal experiences (not OPINIONS) relevant to the prompt, A conclusion that clearly states your overall viewpoint on whether social media is a positive or negative influence on society, especially on adolescents today, Includes a works cited page (MLA format), Demonstrate a good command of the conventions of standard written English.

3. The student had three “big ideas.” Each designed in the outline with a Roman numeral. Note that information is recorded in short words and phrases. This format is called a topic outline. Using an Outline Under each big idea are topics, labeled with letters. Using an outline is a way to organize information. If you are writing a report, writing an outline is an excellent step to take during the prewriting stage. After you collect information and take notes you can outline the information to make sure you have everything you need. Sometimes, a topic has specific supporting details (ideas or facts) labeled with numbers.

4. BIG IDEA #1 In 1943, the War Manpower Commission and the Office of War Information began a campaign. Campaign posters showed a character called “Rosie the Riveter,” an attractive, yet almost brawny, young woman posing to show off her arm muscles. The slogan “We Can Do It!” emphasized Rosie’s strength. The point of the campaign was to recruit women to work in factories. In other words, women were being asked to do “men’s work.” Outlining to Paragraphs The Rosie campaign A. War Manpower Commission and Office of War Information B. Appearance of posters 1. Attractive 2. Young 3. “Brawny” 4. “We Can Do It!” slogan C. Purpose 1. Recruit women to work in factories 2. “Men’s work

5. BIG IDEA #2 Prior to 1943, tens of thousands of men had flocked to recruiting centers to answer the call to war. Their departure left gaps on the home front. The all-important war industries, companies that made uniforms, weapons, ammunition, ships and planes, for example, lost workers daily as men enlisted or were drafted. At the same time, the factories needed to increase production to meet the war’s needs. Outlining to Paragraphs II. Reason for campaign A. Thousands of men had enlisted B. No one to fill jobs C. War industries 1. Uniforms 2. Weapons & ammunition 3. Ships & Planes D. Production increase was needed

6. BIG IDEA #3 American women answered the call. Between 1940 and 1945, six million women joined the workforce. That number is significant, but the types of jobs they were doing is even more noteworthy. Women unloaded freight, operated trains, and used heavy machinery in huge, dirty, noisy factories. Never before had women done those kinds of jobs. An inscription on a bench at the Rosie the Riveter Memorial in Richmond, California summarizes the importance of these women: “You must tell your children, putting modesty aside, that without us, without women, there would have been no spring in 1945.” Outlining to Paragraphs III. Women in workforce A. Jumped from 12 million to 18 million between 1940-45 B. New Jobs 1. Unload freight 2. Operate trains 3. Use heavy machinery

7. Outlining Your Essay Directions: Look back at the notes you took during the previous lesson. Create an outline from those notes. Go back to the source if you need additional information. Remember the format and the labels look like this: Main Idea Topic Topic Supporting detail Supporting detail Remember: Your essay will have 3 main ideas, so your outline needs to have 3 main ideas. Each main idea should have at least 2 topics and at least one of your topics should have at least 1 supporting detail.

8. Below is the general structure of an essay outline. Go back to your notes and begin organizing them into a logic structure of ideas using the outlines that follow. If you need more or less Topic and Supporting Detail lines add and delete as you go. If you get stuck, refer back to the previous slide examples. Later, you will use these outlines to compose the Body Paragraphs of your essay. Outlining Main Idea 1 • [Main Idea] • [Topic] • [Supporting Detail] • [Supporting Detail] • [Topic] • [Supporting Detail • [Topic]

9. Below is the general structure of an essay outline. Go back to your notes and begin organizing them into a logic structure of ideas using the outlines that follow. If you need more or less Topic and Supporting Detail lines add and delete as you go. If you get stuck, refer back to the previous slide examples. Later, you will use these outlines to compose the Body Paragraphs of your essay. Outlining Main Idea 2 II. [Main Idea] • [Topic] • [Supporting Detail] • [Supporting Detail] • [Topic] • [Supporting Detail • [Topic]

10. Below is the general structure of an essay outline. Go back to your notes and begin organizing them into a logic structure of ideas using the outlines that follow. If you need more or less Topic and Supporting Detail lines add and delete as you go. If you get stuck, refer back to the previous slide examples. Later, you will use these outlines to compose the Body Paragraphs of your essay. Outlining Main Idea 3 III. [Main Idea] • [Topic] • [Supporting Detail] • [Supporting Detail] • [Topic] • [Supporting Detail • [Topic]