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Guide to Academic Outlining Techniques

The document discusses outlining academic text, including its definition and uses, two common outlining systems, classification of outlines into topic, sentence, and paragraph outlines, and rules for writing outlines.

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Guide to Academic Outlining Techniques

The document discusses outlining academic text, including its definition and uses, two common outlining systems, classification of outlines into topic, sentence, and paragraph outlines, and rules for writing outlines.

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Outlining Academic Text

Definition

• Is a process consisting of three stages: pre-writing, writing, and post-writing.


Uses of Outlining

1. Logically organizing your ideas in the preparatory stage of writing.


2. Providing a map of our writing for our readers’ preference.
3. Understanding the organization of others writers’ text.

Two System of Outlining

• ALPHANUMERIC (number-letter) SYSTEM


- which makes use of Roman and Hindu-Arabic numbers as well as uppercase
and lowercase letters.
I.

A.

1.

a.

(1)

(a)

(b)

(2)

b.

2.

B.

II.

• DECIMAL SYSTEM
-makes use of symbols that look like decimal numbers.

1.

1.1

1.1.1

1.1.1.1

1.1.1.1.1

1.1.1.1.1.1

1.1.1.1.1.2

1.1.1.1.2

1.1.1.2

1.1.2

1.2

2.
Classification of Outlines

Definition

• outlines are classified into topic, sentence, and paragraph outlines.


• the three types of outlines primarily differ based on the structures used as entries.
Points of Contrast Topic Outline Sentence Outline Paragraph Outline

Entries words, phrases, sentences topic sentences


clauses
Number of Levels four to six two to four only one

Mechanics no periods at the periods mark the periods mark the


end of entries end of entries end of entries

Application used for long or used for short used for short
short compositions compositions
compositions
Parallelism parallelism of parallelism of parallelism of
words, phrases, coordinate coordinate
or clauses of sentences sentences
coordinate
heads

Rules of Writing Outlines

1. Subdivide topics by a system of numbers and letters, followed by a period.


2. Capitalized the first letter of each heading and subheading.
3. Each heading and subheading must have at least two parts. In other words, if there is a ‘I’ there
must be a ‘II’; if there’s an ‘A’ there must be a ‘B’.
4. You must be consistent. You may not write some headings in sentence form and in other in topic
form.
5. Parallel structures must be used.
6. The thesis is a complete declarative sentence, usually in the affirmative. It is not a question, a
phrase, or a dependent clause, but one sentence which express our controlling idea.

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