Reading and Writing 3

Outline Q: Skills for Success

Unit 2: What makes food taste good? Second Edition
Page 52: Plan

Write an outline for your favorite dish paragraph.

1. Topic sentence: Write a topic sentence that names the dish and expresses your main idea:

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2. Subtopic and supporting details: Decide which information from Activity A you will include
in the body of your paragraph to support your main idea.
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3. Concluding sentence: Write a concluding sentence that summarizes the main points of your
paragraph and restates the topic sentence in different words.

Concluding sentence: ________________________________________________________________________________________

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