Reverse Outline

Pull out the thesis statement and subtopics from your from your Midterm or Midterm revised introduction.

I.  Introduction:

A. Thesis Statement:

1. Subtopic claim 1:

2. Subtopic claim 2:

3. Subtopic claim 3:


After you outline these points, you are going to work on making them more coherent, more specific, more concise, and more insightful. We are going to critique these as a class, on the overhead, so that we can go through different, directly relevant rhetorical strategies in order to improve these sentences (ideas) based on their individual issues.