Add Supporting Details

Once you have chosen your primary support points, you will need to add details to explain or demonstrate each of those points. These supporting details can be examples, facts, or evidence. As the following examples show, a supporting detail is always more specific than a primary support point.

THESIS STATEMENT More research is needed on how to treat autism, a serious disorder affecting behavior, communication, and social interaction.
PRIMARY SUPPORT POINT The disorder affects many people, their families, and communities.
SUPPORTING DETAILS

Autism is now diagnosed in about 1 in every 110 children.

This rate is much higher than it was thirty years ago (was 1 in 2000).

Parents and school staffs struggle to know how best to help autistic children.
PRIMARY SUPPORT POINT Some people go online to buy risky treatments that are not science based.
SUPPORTING DETAILS pressurized oxygen chambers, drug and vitamin supplements, special diets and nutrition consultations, blood transfusions
PRIMARY SUPPORT POINT More research has already started to have some good effects.
SUPPORTING DETAILS Funding has increased 15 percent a year between 2000 and 2010, with hundreds more scientists now studying autism.
Many of the treatments advertised online have now been scientifically proven not to work.
Children can now be diagnosed as young as one to two years old, when behavior therapy has a better success rate.