A toolusedinimproving and organizingwrittenideas about a topic intologicalorder
Outline
Sentence Outline
Structured framework for organizing and presenting the main ideas and supporting details of a written work, such as an essay, research paper, or presentation.
Characters are used in this order in bullet formatting:
• Roman Numerals
• Capitalized Letters
• Arabic Letters
• Lowercase Letters
Roman Numerals - Main topic
Capitalized Letters - Subtopic
Arabic Letters - Supporting details
Lowercase Letters - Specific Information
Topic Outline
Presents the major topic, sub topics, and supporting details in the formofwordsandphrases
What are the contents of an outline?
Thesis statement
Major topic
Subtopic
Supporting details
Major topic refer to the major phrases/sentences which are formes from the thesis statement
Subtopics refer to the minor phrases/sentences which are formed from the major topics.
Supporting details are phrases/sentences which provide additional information to clarify or prove the main idea.
A thesis statement is one-statement the expresses the main idea of an essay
Steps in writing an outline::
Choose your topic and establish your purpose.
CreateandOrganizealistofyourmajortopics
Make and organize a list of your subtopics
Provide additional information to support your subtopics
Review and refine the contents of your outline.
Primary sources
-Firsthand information taken form original evidences
-original materials or firsthand accounts that offer evidence or data about a particular event, phenomenon, or topic.
SecondarySources
-Secondhand information taken from the primary sources
-Interpretation, analysis, or evaluations of primary sources.
Narrative
Tells a story which can be fiction or nonfiction
Shorts stories and other traditional tales are examples of fiction while, biographies are examples of narrative non-fiction
Explanation
Explains a particular subject or topic through ideas that support it
A kind of factual text that explains how or why things are
Elaborates on how or why something occurs or give information on how to do something.
Expository
Are also informational texts that present factual data on a topic through description, sequence, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, and problem solution.
Procedural
Lists a sequence of actions or steps needed make or do something.
Recount
Reteels oast events which may either be personal or factual
Personal recount
-retells past events that the writer was personally involved in.
Factual recount
-retells events that also happened in real life but may be about the writer himself/herself.
Persuasive text
-intends to convince the readers/listeners to believe, perform a certain action or change mind.