RESEARCH PAPER - OUTLINE LECTURE

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RESEARCH PAPER - OUTLINE LECTURE

• PAGE 1
• -This will get you started on the next step in
  the research paper, The Outline.
• -The outline shows your main ideas and the order
  in which you are going to write them. Its the
  map of what will later become your rough draft.
• List items in their order of importance.
• Ex. (birth to death)
• 2. Develop from cause and effect
• Ex. (consequences of a criminal's actions or
  what caused someone to become famous and the
  effect that had on society)
• Process
• Ex. (how someone rose to fame)

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RESEARCH PAPER - OUTLINE LECTURE

• Here is the format
• Separate ideas by main idea or categories
• You must use at least 3 main ideas or categories!
  Thesebecome the main headings of the outline.
• Label with Roman Numerals
• Start with Roman Numeral III, and so on.
• List the subcategories(use quotations,
  paraphrase, or commentary)
• Capital Letters show subcategories
• Arabic Numbers details(use quotations,
  paraphrase, or commentary)
• WARNING! Never use a single subheading A
  without B or 1 without 2.
• Ex. If you cut an apple, can you be left with
  one piece?

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RESEARCH PAPER - OUTLINE LECTURE

• Now look at this outline using William
  Shakespeares information
• Childhood
• A. Lived in Stratford Upon Avon
• 1. Born April 23, 1564
• 2. Parents were John Shakespeare and Mary
  Arden
• B. Attended Free Grammar School
• 1. No records of attendance
• 2. Displays knowledge of Greek and Latin
• 3. Never attended college
• Adulthood
• A. Married Anne Hathaway
• 1. William 18 and Anne 26
• 2. Had twins Hamnet Judith
• B. Started career in London
• 1. Successful and playwright
• 2. Work for Lord Chamberlains Men
• 3. Worked for most successful play group in
  London
• III. Death
• A. Wrote will in 1611, left property to
  daughters

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RESEARCH PAPER - OUTLINE LECTURE

• Work on the Mayan Outline Activity!

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MAYANS OF EARLY CENTRAL AMERICA

• Mayan building
• A. Mayans built great cities
• 1. Cities center for cultural life
• 2. Cities had no permanent population
• B. Simple family shelters were a Mayan building
  specialty
• 1. Shelters huts with walls made of poles
• 2. Huts built singly or in small settlements
• II. Work of Mayans
• A. Mainly farming, but also small trade
• 1. Farmers cleared fields with stone axes
• 2. Crops included corn, beans, squash, and
  cacao
• B. _______________________________________
• Major Achievements in branches of knowledge
• A. Astronomy was major accomplishment
• 1. Astronomy enabled Mayans to keep calendars
• 2. Could predict eclipses of the sun
• B. Advanced form of writing was major
  achievement
• 1. Written symbols for sounds and ideas
• 2. Wrote info for books on bark-cloth paper