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Hi Frankie!! Get started. Your outline is due on Tuesday! Formal Essay Outline

__I. Introduction__
 * A. Introduce the general topic**

- Decline in the Music Industry


 * B. Thesis Statement (Argument)**

- With the advent of peer-to-peer filesharing networks, internet piracy has caused a decline in music industry profits

__II. First Body Paragraph (1st supporting reason)__


 * A. Topic Sentence**


 * B. Expand and give specific details**

-There are real world proofs that the music industry results are declining

-Quote from text or example Closure of several major record labels and stores
 * C. Evidence →**


 * D. Analysis (analyze/connect evidence to supporting reason and argument)**

-Technology is being blamed formany of the ills that beset the music business

__III. Second Body Paragraph (2nd supporting reason__)


 * A. Topic Sentence**

-The "indie music" movemelnt has been slowly gaining recognition among fans worldwide


 * B. Expand and give specific details**

-Underground bands are popular with young people and making no money for the music industry


 * C. Evidence → Quote from text or example**

-I fully admit to being what some call an "indie snob", meaning that I have made a conscious effort to find and listen to music that most of the people I know have mever heard of


 * D. Analysis (analyze/connect evidence to supporting reason and argument)**

-Young adults are not paying money to listen to these underground bands

__IV. Third Body Paragraph (3rd supporting reason)__


 * A. Topic Sentence**

-Blame directed against record companies, artists, and internet file sharing.


 * B. Expand and give specific details**

-During the 80's the industry underwent a transformation and restructured catalyzed by some distinct factors. Nielsen monitoring systems were employed to document record sales and radio airplay


 * C. Evidence → Quote from text or example**

-Creative artistry and the artists, themselves, were of secondary importance -"Making the quarterly numbers" mattered, not the music


 * D. Analysis (analyze/connect evidence to supporting reason and argument)**

-Technology made the industry change because there was little control in the internet world. -Long-tenured employees of the companies were sacrificed in the name of profitability and the culture of greed

__V. Conclusion__
 * A. Restate thesis**

-Music industry is declining


 * B. Summarize supporting reasons**

-Several factors caused the decline in the music industry

-this technological world, nothing remains the same and change is taking place every day.
 * C. Concluding**

Over the last few years, there has been a decline in the music industry. There are many people pointing fingers and blaming the decine on the record companies, on the artists and on the internet file sharing.