Posted: August 19th, 2015

Writing Plan

Writing Plan

Order Description

Good organization is essential for clear and effective writing. Effective writing is organized around a central idea or thesis and keeps readers focused. It is important to have an organizational plan in place before you begin writing so that your writing can follow a logical path and communicate effectively with your audience.

The anchor of your paper will be your thesis statement. The thesis announces your topic, makes an arguable/debatable claim, and indicates the supporting points for your claim. The plan for your paper is your map for how you will lead the reader from point to point. Your plan may be a visual organizer, formal outline, or other appropriate model.

Your writing plan must include the following three sections:
Introduction: Give background information and context the reader will need to understand the topic, leading to your thesis. Provide your working thesis statement and preview your main points.
Body: Provide support for the main points that appear in your thesis. Construct a topic sentence for each of these main points and clearly demonstrate the research that supports each of the main points. Use in-text citations to cite this research in APA format.
Conclusion: Indicate the main concepts you will include in your conclusion. Re-state the thesis and summarize the main points. Do not include new information in your conclusion.

Task:

A. Create a writing plan (e.g., visual organizer, formal outline) with an introduction, body, and conclusion to help in the preparation of writing your research paper.
1. Include research to support the thesis statement and the main points.

B. When you use sources, include all in-text citations and references in APA format.

Note: Since the body of your writing plan will demonstrate where the research fits, you will need to use in-text citations in your writing plan, as well as an appropriately formatted reference list.

Note: To ensure a 1-1 correspondence between in-text and reference citations, be sure that each in-text citation has a matching reference citation.

Note: When bulleted points are present in the task prompt, the level of detail or support called for in the rubric refers to those bulleted points.