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 outline. your 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: Try It Out! 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.) A. B. C. Step 2 Write the first draft. Write ROUGH DRAFT at the top of your paper. Follow your outline. Add details that show when each characteristic or ability is used or why it is important. Write two or three sentences for each main point. Introduce each main point with a listing-order transition signal. Step 3 Edit the first draft. Edit your paragraph with a partner as you have done in Chapter 1. Use Reader's Response 2A and Writer's Self-Check 2A on pages 194 and 195. Step 4 Write the final copy. Write a neat final copy to hand in to your teacher. Your teacher may also ask you to hand in your prewriting, your outline, and your other drafts.

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.) Step 2 Write the first draft. - Write ROUGH DRAFT at the top of your paper. - Follow your outline. - Add details that show when each characteristic or ability is used or why it is important. Write two or three sentences for each main point. - Introduce each main point with a listing-order transition signal. Step 3 Edit the first draft. - Edit your paragraph with a partner as you have done in Chapter 1. Use Reader's Response 2A and Writer's Self-Check 2A on pages 194 and 195. Step 4 Write the final copy. - Write a neat final copy to hand in to your teacher. Your teacher may also ask you to hand in your prewriting, your outline, and your other drafts