OUTLINING

Selecting and Organizing

Information
 OUTLINING
•A good way to create a visual
picture of what you have read.
•We record the writer’s
organization
 OUTLINING
•A writer lists down all ideas
relevant to the topic, sorts them
all into major and minor ones,
and creates an outline out of
them.
 WHY DO WE
OUTLINE?
•It gives an overview of the
topic and enables us to see
how various subtopics related
to one another?
 WHY DO WE
OUTLINE?
•Recording the information in
our own words tests our
understanding of what we
read.
 WHY DO WE
OUTLINE?
•It is an effective way to record
needed information from
reference books you do not
own.
 HOW TO MAKE AN OUTLINE?
I. First Major Idea
A. First Supporting detail
1. Detail
2. Detail
B. Second Supporting detail
1. Detail
2. Detail
II. First Major Idea
A. First Supporting detail
 2 SYSTEMS OF OUTLINING
ALPHANUMERIC DECIMAL
I. 1.
A. 1.1
1. 1.1.1
2. 1.1.2
B. 1.2
1. 1.2.1
2. 1.2.2
 4 PRINCIPLES OF
OUTLINING
1. Coordination
2. Subordination
3. Division
4. Parallel Construction
 1. COORDINATION
It requires ideas of the same
relevance to be labeled in the
same way.
 2. SUBORDINATION
It shows that minor details
have to be placed under their
respective major details.
 3. DIVISION
It requires that no cluster
should contain only one item.
 4. PARALLEL
CONSTRUCTION
It requires all entries in each
cluster to use the same
structure or format.
 KINDS OF STRUCTURE
1. Topic Outline
2. Sentence Outline
 1. TOPIC OUTLINE
• It uses words and phrases as its
entries.
• It is used if the ideas being
discussed can be arranged in a
number of ways.
TOPIC OUTLINE
 2. SENCTENCE
OUTLINE
•It uses complete sentence.
•It is used when the topic being
discussed is complicated and
required details.
SENCTENCE
OUTLINE
 TOPIC vs SENTENCE
OUTLINE
POINTS OF TOPIC SENTENCE
CONTRASTT OUTLINE OUTLINE
ENTRIES Words, phrases, Sentences
and clauses
NUMBER OF Four to six Two to four
LEVELS
 TOPIC vs SENTENCE
OUTLINE
POINTS OF TOPIC SENTENCE
CONTRASTT OUTLINE OUTLINE
MECHANICS No periods at end Period mark at the
of entries end of entries
APPLICATION Used for long or Used for short
short compositions
compositions
 TOPIC vs SENTENCE
OUTLINE
POINTS OF TOPIC SENTENCE
CONTRASTT OUTLINE OUTLINE
PARALLELISM Parallelism of Parallelism of
words, phrases, or sentences
clauses
 SUGGESTIONS
1. Do not be overly concerned with the
format. As long as it shows
organization of ideas, it will work for
you.
 SUGGESTIONS
2. Do not write too much.
 SUGGESTIONS
3. Be sure that all information
underneath a heading
supports that heading.
 SUGGESTIONS
4. Every heading that is in the
same left-right position on the
page should be of equal
importance.