Teaching Writing

Use key sentences as an after-the-fact outline

• Keys = excellent outline
• Cut and paste your key sentences onto your title page or use your word processor to hide all text except the key sentences (search for “hidden text”)
• View or not
• Print or not

Use key sentences as an after-the-fact outline

• Read your list. Ask yourself how the key sentences could
• Better communicate the purpose (thesis) to the audience
• Do not proceed until…

Use key sentences as an after-the-fact outline

• Read your list again.
• Ask yourself how the key sentences could be
• Better organized
• More logical
• More coherent
• Again, Do Not Pass Go…

Supply concrete evidence.

• Support each argument with about two pieces of specific, concrete evidence.
• Statistics
• Case Studies
• Expert Opinion