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CLAP
Full-Sentence Outline
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The Full-sentence outline is:
1. The formal organizational stage of the writing process
2. Usually as long or longer than your final paper
3. Does not require transitions
Tasks to complete:
□ 1. Separate your cards into piles by the key words in your
organizational plan
a. Play with each section at a time
□ 2. Write a topic sentence that covers the first stack of cards
a. By now, you should have split these into small enough stacks
that each stack will represent a paragraph
b. If, during your sorting you see that your stacks will have too
much information for one paragraph, then you will separate
these stacks even more
c. Rinse and repeat
□ 3. Incorporate notes for each section (paragraph) into outline
a. Each paragraph for your full sentence outline should include
the following items:
i. Your topic sentence (the point you are trying to prove in
this paragraph which ties back to your thesis)
ii. The secondary and primary quotations and/or
paraphrases you will use with the in-text
(parenthetical citations)
Example:
Thesis: While Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is certainly
guilty of breaking the seventh commandment, she is a far better Christian than her
Puritan contemporaries in her display of humility, forgiveness, and love throughout
her life in Salem.
A. Hester is humble and seeks to put herself last.
1. She walks behind and apart from those who ignore her.
a. “Keep away from the scandalous woman,” the Puritan
wives instruct their children (Hawthorne 23).
b. She holds no resentment toward their ill-mannered
treatment of her, insisting, “my sin has created my
fortune; I deserve no better” (23).
c. “Hester displays a sincere humility suggestive of the
servant role Christ advocated to his disciples” (Smith
4).
2. She expects to be excluded from gatherings.
a. “This is not a woman who would presume to be
forgiven, accepted, liked; she accepts her
consequences with stoic resolve” (Jones 10).
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Body Paragraph: ** EACH BODY PARAGRAPH MUST HAVE REFERENCSE TO BOTH
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY RESOURCES!**
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