The document discusses outlining academic text. Outlining involves organizing ideas by listing them and sorting major and minor ideas into an outline framework. It provides structure for writing by organizing materials before drafting. There are two common outlining systems - alphanumeric using numbers and letters, and decimal using decimal-like symbols. Outlines can be structured as topic outlines using words and phrases, sentence outlines using full sentences, or paragraph outlines using topic sentences. Outlining gives an overview of topics and subtopics and how they relate, allows understanding by recording in your own words, and is effective for recording information from reference materials.
The document discusses outlining academic text. Outlining involves organizing ideas by listing them and sorting major and minor ideas into an outline framework. It provides structure for writing by organizing materials before drafting. There are two common outlining systems - alphanumeric using numbers and letters, and decimal using decimal-like symbols. Outlines can be structured as topic outlines using words and phrases, sentence outlines using full sentences, or paragraph outlines using topic sentences. Outlining gives an overview of topics and subtopics and how they relate, allows understanding by recording in your own words, and is effective for recording information from reference materials.
The document discusses outlining academic text. Outlining involves organizing ideas by listing them and sorting major and minor ideas into an outline framework. It provides structure for writing by organizing materials before drafting. There are two common outlining systems - alphanumeric using numbers and letters, and decimal using decimal-like symbols. Outlines can be structured as topic outlines using words and phrases, sentence outlines using full sentences, or paragraph outlines using topic sentences. Outlining gives an overview of topics and subtopics and how they relate, allows understanding by recording in your own words, and is effective for recording information from reference materials.
The document discusses outlining academic text. Outlining involves organizing ideas by listing them and sorting major and minor ideas into an outline framework. It provides structure for writing by organizing materials before drafting. There are two common outlining systems - alphanumeric using numbers and letters, and decimal using decimal-like symbols. Outlines can be structured as topic outlines using words and phrases, sentence outlines using full sentences, or paragraph outlines using topic sentences. Outlining gives an overview of topics and subtopics and how they relate, allows understanding by recording in your own words, and is effective for recording information from reference materials.
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OUTLINING ACADEMIC TEXT
Outlining Organization of ideas SENTENCE OUTLINE Listing down all ideas relevant to the topic ENTRIES: sorts them all into major and minor Sentences ones, and creates an outline out of them. MECHANICS: A good writer, whether technical or Periods mark the end of entries not, uses an outline to serve as a skeletal framework for his APPLICATION: composition. Used for short compositions Materials are well organized when an outline is made prior to PARALLELISM: collecting information or writing the Parallelism of coordinate draft. Sentences
Two Systems of Outlining PARAGRAPH OUTLINE
ENTRIES: ALPHANUMERIC (number-letter) Topic sentences system which makes use of Roman and Hindu-Arabic numbers as well as MECHANICS: uppercase and lowercase. Periods mark the end of entries DECIMAL SYSTEM makes use of symbols that look like decimal numbers. APPLICATION: Used for short compositions Classification of Outlines PARALLELISM: Parallelism not TOPIC OUTLINE essential ENTRIES: Words, phrases, clauses WHY DO WE OUTLINE? MECHANICS: gives an overview of the topic and enables No periods at the end of us to see how various subtopics relate to entries one another. Recording the information in our own words tests our understanding of what we APPLICATION: read. Used for long or short It is an effective way to record needed compositions information from reference books you do not own. PARALLELISM: Parallelism of words, phrases, or clauses of coordinate heads
