supergrover wrote:

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Travis teaches college english, I can ask.  Are you requred a certain format (MLA or APA?)

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 thanks jen!  I am using MLA. 

Lizzy wrote:

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Do you have a outline template for an essay that I could use? ie. thesis statement w/ bullets and a page for working references.  (I am not even sure how this would look)

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liz, have you used the new references aspect of the new version of microsoft word? (assuming you have that version)

apies wrote:

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i don't use that with my students b/c i have my kids write paragraph by paragraph for me (b/c they suck at writing), but here are a few links i found:

http://www.daltonstate.edu/esl/essay%20outline%20sample.htm

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/4727189/%EF%BF%BDTemplate-Expository-Essay-Outline%EF%BF%BD

how long does it have to be? what type of essay?

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 Thanks April! 

I am writing a 5 page argumentative essay (for a humanities class). 

I don't usually use an outline to get me started, but this essay is proving more difficult.  I am having a hard time narrowing the topic (religion and science in america) and developing a thesis.  Right now, I am focusing on the conflict between evolution and intelligent design.  my (working) thesis is that "religion and science employ different methodology and therefore, cannot be reconciled - nor should they be".  ie. science uses the scientific method, which by definition needs to be falsefiable and modificable.  Religion, on the other hand, relies on faith.  the problem I am running up against (of course) is that intelligent design argues that they are not religion but science.  However, the search for an "intelligent designer" would seem to imply supernatural forces - which science is not equipped to examine. 

oh...i am so lost.

supergrover wrote:

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Formatting:  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/

Creating a thesis:  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/545/01/

(actually, that whole site above is fantastic!  Much better that my university's  :)  )

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