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An Essay Outline: What Readers (and Writers) Want to Know
Outlines are helpful because they provide the skeletons of arguments in bulleted form, helping both readers and writers quickly see how the argument is developed, what isn’t working, what’s needed, and how elements might be more logically organized, for example.
Once a solid outline is in place, writers and readers can rapidly see the whole arc of an argument and follow along through a bulleted format rather than committing to writing or reading a whole paper in paragraph form. You’ll see this bulleted format in the example, below, which relates to homelessness, rather than to our topic, US immigration.
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Outline
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- Your main claim for Essay Four that is focused, arguable and related to US immigration.
- Underneath the main claim, list 8-10 bulleted subclaims that logically support the main claim.
- Underneath each subclaim, provide two pieces of evidence that support each subclaim with accurate MLA in-text citations.
- Provide a counterargument from an actual source and your rebuttal.
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Introduction
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- Write an introductory paragraph that includes an effective opener, context for the debate, the definition of key terms (only if needed), necessary information to logically lead readers from the effective essay opener to the main claim, and your main claim.
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Works Cited List
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- On the last page of the document, include a Works Cited list with the outside sources you are working with so fa.
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the_costs_and_benefits_of_immigrationarticle_3
my_life_as_an_undocumented_immigrantarticle_2
what_does_immigration_actually_cost_us____the_new_york_times_article_1
Solution Preview
Forget the Conservatives, Immigration was and is good for America.
Main claim
With the ever present heated debate on whether immigration is beneficial or detrimental to the United States, there is a need to approach the situation logically and rationally to establish what is reality rather than pessimistic views. In fact, the fight against immigration is championed by conservatives who are paranoid and the battle that this fight bores is the thing that could drag America back into the ruins socially.
Subclaim, Counterargument/Rebuttal, and Conclusion Outline
- SC1: Immigration fight is just a pessimistic view by paranoid conservatives.
- Evidence 1: On the fringes of the immigration debate, you have Donald Trump and his small band of nativist peddling fears and falsehoods (Edsall, #1).
- Evidence 2: Par of this anxiety is rooted in ethnocentrism and group animus. (WEST, #1)
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