Once you've written the first paragraph or two of your report's body section, apply the same process to the rest of the body paragraphs. Remember to pause and check your outline frequently, though, to make sure you're staying on track. Sometimes when you've learned a great deal about a topic, you may be tempted to include details just because you remember them or because they seem interesting. That's fine as long as you're able to connect those details to your report's main ideas. Your outline's purpose is to help you do just that. After you write the section of your draft related to each section of your outline, take a moment to read over each new paragraph and make sure its ideas are clearly connected to that section's main idea.
Besides connecting the details within sections to each other, you'll need to connect the ideas in each body section to the report's main claim and to the ideas in the other body paragraphs. One way to accomplish this task is to use phrases and sentences that help readers make the transition from one paragraph to the next.
As you read through these slides, compare each section of Marisa's outline to the paragraph in her draft that develops that part of the outline.
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- Women in the Civil War
- Some women fought in the war.
- Some women worked to help free slaves and lead scouts.
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There are many similar instances in the Civil War. Sarah Edmonds is one of the best-known women combatants from then. She enlisted in the 2nd Michigan Infantry, disguised as "Franklin Flint Thompson." While she was in the Union army, her roles included mail and dispatch carrier and regimental nurse. She deserted in 1863 after contracting malaria; she feared her gender would be discovered if she were hospitalized.
Women served in other capacities, too. Harriet Tubman, known today mainly for her work on the Underground Railroad, organized and led groups of scouts for U.S. General Rufus Saxton in South Carolina. |
- Women in World War I
- Women could no longer pass as men to fight.
- Participated in wartime manufacturing
- Trained for duties in wartime and natural disasters
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In subsequent American wars, the enlistment process was more thorough and required physical exams. Women were less often able to pass for men, if at all. Nonetheless, women were 20 percent or more of all workers in the wartime manufacturing of machinery, airplanes, and food during World War I. They also began to dominate jobs long considered "masculine," such as clerical workers, telephone operators, typists, and stenographers. In addition, the Women's Naval Service trained women for duties in wartime and national disasters--perhaps the first time the U.S. trained women for wartime duties other than nursing. Thousands of women were taught military calisthenics and drills, food conservation, land telegraphy, manufacturing of surgical dressings and bandages, signal work, and other skills. |
- Women in World War II
- Not permitted to participate in armed conflict
- Worked as nurses near the front lines
- Worked in the Army Signal Corps, but denied official army status until 1979
- During the 1970's, enlistment requirements for women were revised, but women were still prohibited from direct combat roles.
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In World War II, women held jobs such as typists, clerks, and mail sorters. While women were not permitted to participate in armed conflict, their duties often brought them close to the front lines, as when they worked in the Army and Navy medical corps, mostly as nurses. And the Army Signal Corps trained at least 230 women for work as phone operators. The women wore U.S. Army uniforms and insignia, but when the war was over, the Army claimed that they had never been members of the service. Congress finally granted them military status in 1979. In the 1970s, many enlistment requirements for women were revised to make them more similar to those for men. However, while women were able to enlist at the same ages as men and for similar tours of duty, they were still prohibited from direct combat roles. Military leaders argued that women were unsuited for such assignments. |
- Women in the military today
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In 2013 the Pentagon signed an order that opened ground-combat military positions to women, acknowledging that the lines between combat roles and ancillary roles had become blurred and that women were in fact in combat on many fronts. Now women are about 14 percent of the 1.4 million active military personnel and more than 10 percent of those sent to war zones. |
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Question
Look back at the beginning of each section shown in the slideshow. Which phrase or sentence on each slide tells readers how that section relates to previous sections?
There are many similar instances in the Civil War.
In subsequent American wars...
In World War II .
