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Reverse Outline Assignment
In this exercise you will create a ‘reverse outline’ of one of the essays on the eReserves
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Instructions:
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Note that the grammar, style and writing guides in the eReserves
are not suitable sources for this assignment
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Create an outline for one of these essays
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b) Correctly written down the author’s thesis statement
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c) Identified at least three main arguments or supporting points used by the author to
argue for their thesis statement
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Supporting
points, or thesis statements directly copied from the reading will receive no marks
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Examples use specific
facts, but arguments are phrased in general terms, and tell us why the author makes their claim
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It can be difficult to identify
arguments, and you will have to do some thinking, and very often put things in your own words
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This general ‘point’ is an argument
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d) Mention one example, for each argument, used by the author
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Sometimes this will be a
recommendation, suggestion, or further thought
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_____________________________________________________________________________
Examples/Details/Explanations:
a ___________________________________________________________________________
b ___________________________________________________________________________
c ___________________________________________________________________________
Main supporting point 2
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Examples/Details/Explanations:
a ___________________________________________________________________________
b ___________________________________________________________________________
c ___________________________________________________________________________
Conclusion ___________________________________________________________________
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An example of a reverse outline for the essay Facebook in a crowd:
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Essay:__________Facebook in a crowd_______________________________
Introduction (possible ideas)
_____________________________Anecdote_____________________________________________
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Thesis Statement
________________________________Niedzwiecki says that social media friends are not the same
as real friends______________________________________
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Body
Main supporting point 1
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____________________________________________People don’t mean what they say when
replying to social media party invitations________________________________
Examples/Details/Explanations:
a _______________________________________on Facebook ‘definitely attending’ means ‘maybe’,
and ‘maybe’ means ‘not likely’____________________________________
b ___________________________________________________________________________
c ___________________________________________________________________________
Main supporting point 3
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b ___________________He calls these other explanations ‘rationalizations’, which implies that they
are not correct
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