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Writing a Detailed Outline

At this point take the preliminary outline and insert your paraphrased notes and quotes with source citations. You may also want to make include a reference to the note-card code. The rough draft will be written from this outline. Be sure to save often as you type, and in multiple locations i.e. floppy disk, hard drive, CD, travel drive, email or School Loop etc.

Example of a detailed outlined paragraph:

III. Second Body Paragraph

Topic Sentence: Che Guevara was acutely aware of the lack of medical care for the poorest in Latin America, as a medical student this struck him as cruel and unusual punishment secondary only to the poverty.

  1.   servant women-Asthma G3…notes-page/card code
    1. After visiting an elderly servant woman on the verge of death, Che writes in his diary, “ How long this order of things based on an absurd sense of caste will continue is not within my means to answer, but it is time that those who govern dedicate less time to propagandizing the compassion of their regimes and more money, much more money, sponsoring works of social utility (Guevara 29).”
  2.   leper colony A1…notes-page/card code
    1. His travels with Alberto Granado brought Che to many leprosaria mainly because Alberto was a medical researcher. Ernesto’s compassion is visible in an incident in a leprosarium in Argentina where Alberto was conducting research. A young girl was delivering an impassioned argument on the injustice of her internment. Alberto proved the severity of her condition by shoving a long needle into her back. The girl did not flinch, but Che did. He asked the girl to excuse them and then chastised Alberto for his unprofessional and cruel behavior for treating a patient so poorly (Anderson 61).
  3.   United Fruit Company hospital A3…notes-pages/cards code
    1. While in Golfito, Costa Rica he visited the Company hospital of United Fruit Company. He observed that while the medicine they practiced was correct, the quality of the medical treatment depended on the person’s position in the company. He laments, “as always the class spirit of the gringos can be seen (Anderson 119).”

    Transition sentence: Che found that poor health was often the result of poor working Conditions.



Review the outline. Are there paragraphs that seem weak on content or support? If so, go back and do further research on that one area.



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