Exercise 2

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Exercise 2

Looking at your responses to Exercise 2 from Topic 3, select one of the topic sentences and set of details you recorded. Using the outline form below, fill in the details for your topic. You may want to do some deeper research in order to provide greater detail, or you may want to write from your own experience. In either case, attempt to complete the outline with as much detail as possible.

This activity contains 1 question.

Introduction
1. Write a general thesis statement for your essay
2. Write out the plan for what points you want to develop in the body of the essay.
Body
1. Write out your first main point.
  1. supporting detail #1
  2. supporting detail #2
  3. supporting detail #3
2. Write out your second main point
  1. supporting detail #1
  2. supporting detail #2
  3. supporting detail #3
3. Write out your third main point
  1. supporting detail #1
  2. supporting detail #2
  3. supporting detail #3
Conclusion – Summarize your main points and restate your thesis in a way that ties all of your ideas together.

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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