Sample+Topic+Sentence+Outline

Your topic sentence outline will be created in NoodleTools and then exported as we did in the last paper. Please use refer to the NoodleBib User Guide file (pages 73-78) that I have linked to this page to refresh your memory on how to drag note cards to topic sentences, as well as exporting by clicking on the printer icon. As always if you have problems, feel free to e-mail apreetam@gfsnet.org or post your question on the discussion board.

***PLEASE note that the content of this paper is excellent, but that it needs to be edited so that weaker evidence is omitted. If your topic is over a page long it probably can be divided into two or more subtopics.** Grading: Topic sentence: **The establishment of the motor car assembly line enabled the mass manufacturing of motor vehicles, and in turn influenced the surge of production of the car for the common American.** Connection to thesis:** Once motor companies could produce vehicles faster and for less money, the motor industry introduced a low cost vehicle that the common American could afford. Thus, initiating the overwhelming span of the automobile to both the mindsets and living conditions of Americans.
 * *Topic sentence has substance (mini-thesis statement) and encompasses the breadth of the proposed paragraph **
 * *The topic sentence clearly connects to your thesis **
 * *Evidence has been edited and fully supports your topic sentence **
 * *DATES! **
 * *Use of multiple sources to prove a point **
 * *Connection to thesis goes well beyond your topic sentence **
 * Thesis: The mass production of the American automobile and an increase in availability, due to lower costing models designed for the common American, enabled the US automobile industry to lead to the establishment of the suburbs, an American mindset focused on car, and a complete day –to- day dependence on the car.**
 * Intro**
 * "There were fewer than 7 million cars registered in 1919; 10 years later, thanks to Henry Ford and his assembly line techniques there were 23 million, or one for every five persons in the United States."**
 * "Motor vehicle manufacturing was by then(1920's) the largest industry in the country and was still growing rapidly."**
 * ""When they first attempted to assemble an entire car by the assembly line method, they put a frame on skids and pulled it from one end of the building to the other with rope."**
 * "A group of men walked along it, grabbing parts from replaced piles as they went along. The next refinement was to station different men, or teams, by the equipment, and drag the chassis past them."**
 * "As the process was refined, the number of man hours per car was cut from 15.5 to 1.5"**
 * image of an assembly line**
 * "What was so extraordinary about the twenties was less the introduction of new inventions than the sudden mass-produced availability of ones already around-the car, the electric light, the telephone, the refrigerator, the flush toilet."**
 * "American society is also characterized by social change, particularly technological change that moves in the direction of greater and greater production of more kinds and more numerous objects for consumption and accumulation."**