Reasons and examples

• Outlines: concept, purpose and crafting

• Stating reasons and giving examples
 OUTLINES
• What are they?
– Outlines are a way of formally arranging
and developing your ideas.

• What is their aim?

– The purpose of an outline is to help you to:
• Organize your text
• Verify that ideas connect to each other
• Check if points need to be expanded
 Crafting an outline
• Identify topic
Put it in your own words to show your individual understanding.

• Decide main points

What are the main ideas you want to convey or need to convince your audience
of?

• Give order
Arrange your main points in a logical order and list them in the outline.

• Create sub-points
– Add illustrations beneath each major idea

• Evaluate your outline

– Does it make logical sense?
– Is each point suitably expanded?
– Is there anything unnecessary?
What does it look like?
 Your turn

• A friend of yours has asked you to

recommend TV programs that help him
improve his level of English. With a
small group, discuss various ideas.
What TV programs would be the best?

• Time to brainstorm!
Topic sentence:

• Reason A:
• Reason B:
• Reason C:
• Reason D:
• Reason E:
• Reason F:
 Your turn

• Now choose the most relevant reasons.

• Do more thinking to find two specific

sub-points per reason. A specific sub-
point might be skills, convenience,
variety, post activities, etc.