Notes from Lecture

1. Rough Outline:
 Group similar ideas until you get a cluster
o Baseline information
o Ideas that begin to form an argument
o Evidence in support of your argument/perspective
Structures for Outline:
 A+B=C
Baseline Information History
Trends
What we Think Alternatives
Why/Why not
 Puzzle
o Abstract
o Quotation
o Main Idea:
 Multiple Parts=Whole, everything ties back together
o Meaning-“So what?”
 Reasoning behind your meaning, potential problems
o Sub headers

2.  Funnel
General information (very broad)
Specific information
Explaining topic
Supporting Evidence
Perspective
 The Naysayer
o Opponents argument
 Presenting information
o Statements against opposing vision
 Making a claim
o Supporting the claim
What happens in the paper
Important things reader
needs to know to
understand subject
Your vision/what you
think your research says