Does your first paragraph have a thesis statement that answers the essential question? Does your first paragraph provide the reader with a guide to how you will “prove” your thesis in your body paragraphs? Do all of your topic sentences “prove” your thesis or a portion of your thesis? Are your topic sentences complete sentences? Do you provide sufficient relevant evidence to support each topic sentence in your body paragraphs?

How Harlem Renaissance Helped Black People Express Themselves

Using the attached paper create an outline following the format below:

Outline Format:
 Place the essay’s thesis statement at the top of the outline.
 Most outlines contain three or four levels of detail (although more levels may be used if the writer wishes).
 The format for this assignment uses Roman numerals for the main, or largest, divisions of the outline (level one). Capital letters indicate the sub-levels of the main divisions (level two). Arabic numerals indicate the sub-levels of the capital-letter sections (level three). Lower-case letters indicate the sub-levels of Arabic-numeral sections (level four).

Outline Rules:
 The Rule of Pairs: If you have a I, you must have a II; if you have an A, then you must have a B; if you have a 1, then you must have a 2, and so on.
 Different sections of the outline may have different levels of detail. Give each section the amount of detail it requires.
 Indent each successive level of the outline three spaces, and maintain even internal margins throughout the outline.
 Double-space between all headings in the outline (or double-space the whole outline and triple-space between headings).

Thesis:
Does your first paragraph have a thesis statement that answers the essential question?
Does your first paragraph provide the reader with a guide to how you will “prove” your thesis in your body paragraphs?
Yes/Yes
Yes/No or No/Yes
No/No

Topic Sentences of body paragraphs:

Do all of your topic sentences “prove” your thesis or a portion of your thesis? Are your topic sentences complete sentences?
Yes/Yes
Only some Yes/No
or
No/Only some Yes
No/No

Evidence:
Do you provide sufficient relevant evidence to support each topic sentence in your body paragraphs? Is your evidence noted with brief bullet points (not full sentences!)
Yes/Yes
Too much evidence/Yes or Not enough evidence/No
Not enough relevant evidence supporting each topic sentence/No

Conclusion:
Does the topic sentence of your conclusion restate your thesis? Is your topic sentence a complete sentence?
Yes/Yes
Yes/No or No/Yes
No/No