Reflection Paper
Healthy Nation: Need for a healthy
physical lifestyle.
Objective:
To complete an edited reflection
paper
 To be able format essay outline for
reflection paper.
 To discuss the components of a
healthy physical lifestyle.
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Essay Outline
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Have you ever told a joke and just before coming to
the punch line, remembered the part in the middle that
makes the punch line funny?
Using an essay outline helps you organize your
thoughts so that you don’t make that mistake. In
addition, you’ll find the more structured your outline is,
the better organized and easier to write your essay will
be. A well-structured essay outline helps you travel
from point to point in your composition, creating a
natural flow for the reader until you bring the “punch
line” home in the summary or conclusion.
Essay Outline
Begin your outline by deciding whether to use the more traditional I, II,
III, and IV outline markers, use headings w/o any markers or a
combination of both. The title should be at the top of your paper
and everything else will fall below it.
The Introduction — why you chose this topic or your premise
/thesis and/or the conclusion you hope to prove in the body (A).
Enter the points you will cover (B).
II. The Body — Use the points as subheadings. (A, B, C, etc.) Under
each point, list the information that supports or elaborates on
each point (1, 2). This information will make up your essay body.
III. The Conclusion — The summary of your supporting information
(A) should show how you reached your (B) conclusion.
IV. Citations — List your citations. (If you used outside sources of
information)
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Essay Outline
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In addition to helping you organize your thoughts, an
essay outline also helps you plan the length of your
paper. In fact, a good outline can make writing an
essay as simple as filling in the blanks.
An essay outline can even help you determine the
length of each paragraph. Especially in cases where
you are limited to a number of pages or assigned a
word count, you can use an essay outline to break the
structure into percentages or words.
Writing an essay outline can be as easy as you want to
make it. Using an essay outline helps you organize
your thoughts from beginning to end and makes sure
you don’t leave any important parts out of the middle!
General Essay Outline
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I. Introduction (Include a lead, thesis statement and 3 main points)
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II. Topic Sentence 1:
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A. Support
1. Detail/example
2. Detail/example
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B. Support
1. Detail/example
2. Detail/example
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III. Topic Sentence 2:
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A. Support
1. Detail/example
2. Detail/example
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B. Support
1. Detail/example
2. Detail/example
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IV. Topic Sentence 3:
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A. Support
1. Detail/example
2. Detail/example
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B. Support
1. Detail/example
2. Detail/example
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V. Concluding Paragraph
Example Reflection Paper
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Minimum of 750 words.
Describe three fitness goals that you had at the
beginning of the year or had made sometime during
the school year and why they were goals you wanted
to achieve.
Did you achieve these goals? Why or why not?
Discuss why you were able to achieve your goals or
obstacles that got in the way of achieving them.
Discuss what activities you did as a part of your
healthy lifestyle?
How have these activities helped you achieve your
goals?
Why is fitness important to you?