1. Working with a Formal Outline
How To Get the Structure Right

2. Class Attendance: Ignore It…Should We?

3. Thesis statement: Because class attendance provides opportunities for learning, for cultivating commitment and for improving social skills, it should be fully encouraged and duly rewarded.

4. I. The learning assessment factor
A. Learning from professor’s
hypothetical questions and answers
B. Learning from various student
responses to individual questions
C. Learning from multi-dimensional
approach to issues
D. Showing understanding of what’s being taught

5. II. The endurance factor
A. Staying on task
B. Preparing for real world obligations

6. III. The social skills factor
A. Cultivating acceptable
public behavior
B. Cultivating acceptable public language

7. Class Attendance: Ignore It…Should We?
Thesis statement: Because class attendance provides opportunities for learning, for cultivating commitment and for improving social skills, it should be fully encouraged and duly rewarded.
I. The learning assessment factor
A. Learning from the professor’s hypothetical questions and answers
B. Learning from various student responses to individual questions
C. Learning from multi-dimensional approach to issues
D. Showing understanding of what’s being taught
II. The endurance factor
A. Staying on task
B. Preparing for real world obligations
III. The social skills factor
A. Cultivating acceptable public behavior
B. Cultivating acceptable public language