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Jeff Lee
Professor Cheng
Writing and Reading (Ⅱ)
Classification essay (Outline)
2010/11/16
Essay Outline Template
I.
INTRODUCTION
A. Background Information
1. Television is indispensible to modern people in daily lives.
2. Considerable TV programs are created to satisfy the audience’s
needs.
B. Thesis statement
1. TV programs can be divided into two classifications which are
dramas and variety shows.
2. The criterion is that people in the programs whether act other
characteristic or not.
II.
BODY
A. Drama
1. People in dramas should become others and experience stories which
didn’t happen to them.
2. Supporting Ideas
a. Purpose: To make the audience experience the accidents which
are unusual or even impossible for them.
b. People can be satisfied by drama because they can see the
whole story as if they were on the spot.
c. Different forms of TV dramas(Western series and Asian soap
dramas)
3. Dramas satisfy the audience’s imaginations so that they are always
appealing to people.
B. Variety show
1. People in variety shows didn’t need to become others but play games
or do activities to make audience happy.
2. Supporting Ideas
a. Purpose: To make people laugh or gain knowledge.
b. Lots of forms can be applied in variety shows. (Talk shows,
Games, Music, Questions)
3. People will get pleasure because of seeing others behave stupidly or
listening to jokes in variety shows.
C. Reality show
1. Reality shows are fusions of dramas and variety shows.
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2. Supporting Ideas
a. Although people in reality shows didn’t need to act others but
the accidents and reactions are set in advance.
b. Reality shows are more popular in western countries.
3. Seeing reality shows, you can see a whole story in a more convincing
way.
III.
CONCLUSION
A. With the development of TV programs, the border of these two kinds became
vague. However, the elements of them still exist in the new forms of TV
programs.
B. The television stations make the programs various so they can meet our needs
at once.
IV.
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