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Topic Outline and Sentence Outline

There are two basic types of outlines: topic outlines and sentence outlines. A topic outline uses short phrases to hierarchically arrange ideas, while a sentence outline uses complete sentences to organize more specific and complex details. Outlines can vary in specificity from very general to very detailed. Creating an effective outline involves identifying the topic, main categories, and subcategories. A complete outline consists of a title, purpose statement, and body using Roman numerals, capital letters, Arabic numerals, small letters, and parentheses to denote successive divisions and show the relationship between topics.

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Topic Outline and Sentence Outline

There are two basic types of outlines: topic outlines and sentence outlines. A topic outline uses short phrases to hierarchically arrange ideas, while a sentence outline uses complete sentences to organize more specific and complex details. Outlines can vary in specificity from very general to very detailed. Creating an effective outline involves identifying the topic, main categories, and subcategories. A complete outline consists of a title, purpose statement, and body using Roman numerals, capital letters, Arabic numerals, small letters, and parentheses to denote successive divisions and show the relationship between topics.

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TOPIC OUTLINE AND SENTENCE

OUTLINE
• There are two basic types of outlines:
• Topic Outline – a systematic arrangement that consists of
words and short phrases, It is useful when you want to arrange
your ideas hierarchically to show which are the sub points. It
also helps you arrange your ideas in the sequence that you
want and to show how much idea relate with one another.
• Sentence outline – Sentences are used to express specific and
complex details.
• Using sentences instead of short phrases allows you to
organize complete ideas for each section or portion of
your speech or essay.
• Outlines can be very specific or very general. It is
important to remember that the more details you have, the
farther you will get toward writing your speech or paper.
Here are helpful tips on how you can create an outline.
1. Identify the topic
• 2. Identify the main categories.
• 3. Create a sub categories.
The conventions of the outlining.
• A complete outline consists of three parts: the title, the purpose statement
and the body of the outline.
• Main division of the body are represented by Roman Numerals, their
divisions in turn, are marked by capital letters. Successive divisions are
indicated by Arabic numerals, small letters, Arabic numerals in parenthesis,
and small letters in parenthesis. These symbols follow a progressive system
of indention so that the relationship and relative importance of topics may be
seen at a glance.

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