PRACTICE 7 Outlining TOPIC SENTENCE FIRST MAIN POINT SECOND MAIN POINT THIRD MAIN POINT CONCLUDING SENTENCE Now you try it. Make an outline from the Prewriting Activity: Clustering that you did at the beginning of the chapter (pages 34-36). Use the following form for your outline. Step 1 Look at your final cluster of circles. Mark ideas that seem useful for this topic, and cross out ideas that don't seem useful. Try to find three main points. Label them A, B, C. Step 2 Write a topic sentence and a concluding sentence. Title: A. B. C. Try It Out! Write a paragraph from the outline you wrote in Practice 7. Use the model 100 paragraph on page 37 as a guide. (You have already completed Step 1 in the writing process, Prewriting.)

Now you try it. Make an outline from the Prewriting Activity: Clustering that you did at the beginning of the chapter (pages 34-36). Use the following form for your outline. Step 1 Look at your final cluster of circles. Mark ideas that seem useful for this topic, and cross out ideas that don't seem useful. Try to find three main points. Label them A, B, C. Step 2 Write a topic sentence and a concluding sentence. Title: A. B. C. Write a paragraph from the outline you wrote in Practice 7. Use the model paragraph on page 37 as a guide. (You have already completed Step 1 in the writing process, Prewriting.) Now you try it. Make an outline from the Prewriting Activity: Clustering that you did at the beginning of the chapter (pages 34-36). Use the following form for your outline. Step 1 Look at your final cluster of circles. Mark ideas that seem useful for this topic, and cross out ideas that don't seem useful. Try to find three main points. Label them A, B, C. Step 2 Write a topic sentence and a concluding sentence. Title: A. B. C. Write a paragraph from the outline you wrote in Practice 7. Use the model paragraph on page 37 as a guide. (You have already completed Step 1 in the writing process, Prewriting.)