- if you have had a job, make a list of the effects of that job. Think of all kinds of effects-physical, mental, social, and emotional.
if you are going to write about someone else's job, prepare for and conduct an interview with that person. take careful notes. Then make a list of ways that job has affected the person you interviewed.
Ahmad listed effects of hassan's job, based on his interview notes.
- look over your list effects, and decide how to organize them. if you have more than tfree effects on your list, you should choose the three that you can develop best and cross out the others. Draft a topic sentence, and make a two-level outline, leaving space to fill in the third level later.
ahmad made the following brief outline. Notice that he left space to develop the third level later.
-To develop the third level, you need sensory details, examples, explanations, or quotations. think about your work experience or review your interview notes, and then complete the third level.
Ahmad completed his outline this way.