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Outline and Thesis Statement Guide

Create an outline that includes details that support your thesis. Identify at least three main points and at least two supporting details per main point. A hate crime is the victimization of an individual’s race, religion, national origin, ethnic identification.

• Write all supporting details and subdetails in complete sentences. In both crime and law hate crime is also known as bias-motivated crime. It’s usually violent, prejudice motivated crime that occurs when a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her perceived membership in a certain social group.

• Include both in-text citations in the outline and a references page following the outline. Many of your supporting details and subdetails will need in-text citations. I have got most of my information from Wikipedia.

• Outline only the body of your paper (not your introduction or conclusion). Hate crime generally refers to criminal acts that are seen to have been motivated by bias against one or more types of groups or their derivatives. Incidents may involve physical assault, damage to property, bullying, harassment, verbal abuse or insults, or even offensive graffiti or letters.

• Avoid bias and present a balanced case for your thesis—this will strengthen your writing. Hate crimes in America is on the rise. People are getting mistreated and there is nothing being done about it. With the hate on the rise people are either killing each other or they are killing themselves because they cannot deal with the pain anymore.

Your thesis statement:

Outline: I. Introduction Hate Crime is a major issue II. First main point Bullying A. Supporting details 1. Subdetails Kids are killing Kids 2. Subdetails Kids are killing themselves B. Supporting details 1. Subdetails People are going to jail 2. Subdetails People are suing each other
III. Second main point Hate Crime in Media A. Supporting details 1. Subdetails Social Media like facebook and twitter 2. Subdetails Televison B. Supporting details 1. Subdetails Internet 2. Subdetails Websites
IV. Third main point Bullying At Schools A. Supporting details 1. Subdetails Teen Suicide 2. Subdetails Kids making fun of each other for difference B. Supporting details 1. Subdetails Schools not doing anything about it 2. Subdetails Parents not teaching kids right from wrong.
V. Conclusion Hate crimes are tearing America apart in my honest opinion. You have kids trying to hurt each other with words and the victim is either hurting themselves or even killing themselves cause they cannot deal with the pain anymore.

Explain in a short paragraph (at least 150 words) why you decided to sequence your paragraphs as you did. The way that I have did my paragraphs is the way they are is because I feel that my main points will be at the start of the thesis instead of the end. If you get the reader focused on your work at the beginning they will more than likely stay in tune with you throughout your work. People tend to get bored when reading and they want to be kept up to speed with what you are writing about and not want to let down when reading. A interesting paper compared to a dull paper will make the major difference in your readers readiness to keep entertained with your work.
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