Only write out thesis and topic sentences – everything else can be bullet points
Detailed Outline Template
Reason 1 Reason 2
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Evidence–Evidence Evidence–Evidence
Thesis:
- Religion is important to the Tainos because it’s how they expressed their social hierarchy
Body Paragraph #1
- Topic sentence:
- Context for evidence
- Evidence (include the citation/footnote):
- Analysis that explains why the evidence supports the argument
- Transition to and context for the next piece of evidence
- Evidence (include the citation/footnote)
- Analysis that explains why the evidence supports the argument
Additional evidence and analysis as needed
- Concluding sentence that wraps up the main idea and transitions to the next body paragraph
Body Paragraph #2
- Topic sentence that links back to the thesis and introduces the argument to come (continue the transition from the previous paragraph to show connection)
- Context for evidence
- Evidence (include the citation/footnote)
- Analysis that explains why the evidence supports the argument
- They had very complex and complicated structures
- Transition to and context for the next piece of evidence
- Evidence (include the citation/footnote)
- Analysis that explains why the evidence supports the argument
Additional evidence and analysis as needed
- Concluding sentence that wraps up the main idea and transitions to the conclusion