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Week 3 Outline

Fill in the areas of this outline for your assignment this week.

Introduction

Please include your entire introduction. Revise one full introduction from your Week 3 Discussion based on feedback from your peers and instructor.

Opening sentence or hook

Explanatory sentence about topic/problem

Thesis statement Click or tap here to enter text.

Body Paragraph 1 – Supporting Point 1:

Topic Sentence: What is the main point or reason of this paragraph? Click or tap here to enter text.

Source #1: What evidence have you found that supports your point? Click or tap here to enter text.

Explain how this evidence supports your point. Include some APA in-text citations, i.e. (Ford, 2020, p. 1) Click or tap here to enter text.

Transitional Phrase

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Body Paragraph 2 – Supporting Point 2

Topic Sentence: What is the main point or reason of this paragraph? Click or tap here to enter text.

Source #2: What evidence have you found that supports your point? Click or tap here to enter text.

Explain how this evidence supports your point. Include some APA in-text citations, i.e. (CDC, 2020, p. 25). Click or tap here to enter text.

Transitional Phrase

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Body Paragraph 3 – Supporting Point 3

Topic Sentence: What is the main point or reason of this paragraph? Click or tap here to enter text.

Source #3: What evidence have you found that supports your point? Click or tap here to enter text.

Explain how this evidence supports your point. Include some APA in-text citations, i.e. (Rousseau et al., 2020, para. 29).

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Transitional Phrase

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Body Paragraph 4 - Opposing Point

Please note in your final draft, you may consider the counterpoint before you consider your supporting points. In other words, this may become Body Paragraph 2 instead of Body Paragraph 4.

What is the first counterargument? Identify a source that presents this objection and cite it, i.e. (Smith & Ruiz, 2019, para. 3). Click or tap here to enter text.

How do you respond to or rebut the counterargument described above? You may use a source to refute this opposing point as well. Click or tap here to enter text.

Conclusion Paragraph

Note the most important point you made in the essay Click or tap here to enter text.

Reiterate your thesis statement. (Be sure to state your thesis statement differently than you did in the introduction paragraph.) Click or tap here to enter text.

Reflective sentence or call to action. In other words, why is it so important your audience changes its thinking or actions? What is at stake? Click or tap here to enter text.

References

Include two or more APA references. Remember, your final paper will need four (with at least three from the databases) Do not worry if you cannot insert hanging indents or double space in the box where you inset your text. Focus more on the proper APA reference for now. Click or tap here to enter text.