What should my Essay 3 outline have?

*Because you are writing about 2-3 steps, use transitional phrases in your topic sentences that provide order, or that reference these steps/rules.

* Vocabulary: words like rules, steps, actions, beliefs, cultural norms, and other ones should be within your main ideas. Why?

I. Intro:

• A hook: on the culture/place or the advice (hook and context)
• A brief description of the culture (context)
• Two or three steps/rules introduced?  (subtopics)
• Thesis: biggest piece of advice for doing well in the culture/place (should connect in language to the two to three steps)

II. Body

A. Topic Sentence 1 (one step/rule):

• Reason this step/rule is valid/important?
• Example of the step in play, in the culture? 

B. Topic Sentence 2 (a second step/rule):

• Reason this step/rule is valid/important?
• Example of the step in play, in the culture? 

C.  Topic Sentence 3 (a third step/rule):

• Reason this step/rule is valid/important?
• Example of the step in play, in the culture?

III. Conclusion

A. Topic Sentence: Summary of advice and steps
B. Larger relevance of advice (see the Conclusions lesson from earlier this semester)


Starting a body paragraph from the outline:

•  When a writer outlines their ideas, she gives herself the paragraph's largest PRE structure. Instead of thinking of an idea while writing the paragraph, you start with the idea and know exactly which reasons and which examples you want to include in the paragraph. 
• Having direction: 
• Helps development
• Helps unity & coherence
• Gives the writer time to focus on grammar and sentence variety, because the outline helps them with organization. In short, you can think about HOW to write a sentence to the best that you can rather than just trying to come up with an idea "in that moment."

• One strategy I like to do before I write a paragraph from an outline is to create a word bank of words that go along with my main point and the subject matter. 

• I brainstorm a bunch of synonyms of words that are in my topic sentences, and
• I brainstorm words that deal with the subject matter I am covering: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs.
• sensory filled words
• words that describe people, places, things
• names of people, places, things (that are in that culture/place) 

• For instance, a student wrote a poem about "Severna Park cross country girls." The city name is there, as is the sport and the gender. Language is specific as possible. 

 ...now, let's write a draft for one of our Essay 3 body paragraphs, following our outlines after first creating a word bank of 15-20 words...