English 4th mid

• Outline 


  Is a map of your essay
• A tool used in improving and organizing written ideas about a topic into logical order


  Outline
• Sentence Outline 


  Structured framework for organizing and presenting the main ideas and supporting details of a written work, such as an essay, research paper, or presentation.
• Characters are used in this order in bullet formatting:

  • Roman Numerals

  • Capitalized Letters

  • Arabic Letters

  • Lowercase Letters
• Roman Numerals - Main topic

  Capitalized Letters - Subtopic

  Arabic Letters - Supporting details

  Lowercase Letters - Specific Information
• Topic Outline 


  Presents the major topic, sub topics, and supporting details in the form of words and phrases
• What are the contents of an outline?

  Thesis statement

  Major topic

  Subtopic

  Supporting details
• Major topic refer to the major phrases/sentences which are formes from the thesis statement
• Subtopics refer to the minor phrases/sentences which are formed from the major topics.
• Supporting details are phrases/sentences which provide additional information to clarify or prove the main idea.
• A thesis statement is one-statement the expresses the main idea of an essay
• Steps in writing an outline::

  1. Choose your topic and establish your purpose.
  2. Create and Organize a list of your major topics
  3. Make and organize a list of your subtopics
  4. Provide additional information to support your subtopics
  5. Review and refine the contents of your outline.
• Primary sources 


  -Firsthand information taken form original evidences

  -original materials or firsthand accounts that offer evidence or data about a particular event, phenomenon, or topic.
• Secondary Sources

  -Secondhand information taken from the primary sources

  -Interpretation, analysis, or evaluations of primary sources.
• Narrative

  • Tells a story which can be fiction or nonfiction
  • Shorts stories and other traditional tales are examples of fiction while, biographies are examples of narrative non-fiction
• Explanation

  • Explains a particular subject or topic through ideas that support it
  • A kind of factual text that explains how or why things are
  • Elaborates on how or why something occurs or give information on how to do something.
• Expository

  • Are also informational texts that present factual data on a topic through description, sequence, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, and problem solution.
• Procedural

  • Lists a sequence of actions or steps needed make or do something.
• Recount

  • Reteels oast events which may either be personal or factual
• Personal recount 


  -retells past events that the writer was personally involved in.
• Factual recount 


  -retells events that also happened in real life but may be about the writer himself/herself.
• Persuasive text


  -intends to convince the readers/listeners to believe, perform a certain action or change mind.