Earth Paper Outline


You will turn in your revised thesis statements and outlines for the final paper to writing tutor What should be in your outline?

Your outline should demonstrate the organizing structure of your paper and present the evidence you plan to use within that structure. Doing so will allow you to see gaps that might be in either your evidence or your argument itself.

Your outline should:

1) Present your argument and evidenced in a logical form and so
2) construct an ordered overview of your writing
3) show the relationship of your ideas to each other.
(see here for more on developing and outline)

 How much evidence should you provide? Because the transcript of the film, and much of the textual evidence you will be employing { (Indian Partition (pp.102 - 106);Encyclopedia of the Twentieth Century, "South Asia" ) } is available to you on the web, copying and pasting the relevant BRIEF passages into your outline should be straightforward. Be sure to include only the relevant evidence! Don't just shovel text into your outline.


One example of what your outline with evidence might look like can be found here, the sample outline for a sample world-history paper.


Remember that you need (A) at least four pieces of evidence from the film (B) at least two pieces of evidence from each of the three readings and (C) 2 pieces of additional evidence from one or more of any of the readings -- which reading(s), however, are your choice