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By Mrs Humera Aftab

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Outline and its importance

� A document that briefly summarizes the

information included in a paper, book,

speech, essay, or similar document.

� Shows the order in which the

information will be presented .

� Indicates the relationship of the pieces

of information to each other.

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� Outlines allow you to map your thoughts into

a coherent, logical organization.

� They also let you know early in the writing

process if an idea for a paper, book, or other 

project just isn't going to pan out because

you don't have enough supporting materialor information or because the idea simply

isn't sound.

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� They make the process of writing fast and

easier.� Time spent on making outlines saves time in

original writing.

� It helps you make your own point of view

clear to you.� Complex ideas are made easier.

� If a change is required, can be easily madein outline.

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� Outlines indicate early on whether you have

left out important information or addedsuperfluous ideas.

� Word processors have made writing outlines

much simpler because they make it very

easy to add, delete, reorganize, or evencompletely revamp information as much and

as often as necessary.

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Writing the Outline

� Before you write outline, complete your 

preliminary research ²you can't write

an outline until you know more or less

what it is you are going to talk about.

�  After you have researched your topic,

you can then determine your thesis, or 

the main idea or point that you want toargue in your document.

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�

 After deciding on a thesis statement, youneed to identify several supporting points

that substantiate your thesis.

� These supporting points will be the main

ideas of your outline.

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Format of an Outline

TitleI. First main idea

 A. Supporting idea

1 Details2 Details

3 Details

a. Minor detailsb. Minor details

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B. Supporting idea

1.Details

2. Details

C. Supporting idea

II. Second main idea

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Types of the Outline

�The Topic Outline

�The Sentence Outline

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The Topic Outline

Growing up with Computers

I. Growing computer use in my life

 A. Video games in first gradeB. Father¶s PC

1. Brought home in fourth

grade

2. Took over 

3. Weekend net surfing

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C. School

1. Appearance in school computer 

lab.

2. High school computer course

D. First generation to grow up on

computersE. Impact

II. Effect in hand-eye coordination

 A. Quick response for playing gamesB. Other skills neglected

1. Cricket playing

2. Delicate construction

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III. Effect on problem solving

  A. Constant problem solving

B. Computers as complex multipleenvironment

1. Finding way through

2. Figuring out how programs work3. Figuring out how to make

programs work

4. Making my own programs

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The Sentence Outline

Growing up with Computers

I I have been using computers since my early

age.

 A. I got my first video game in first grade.

B. When my father brought home a PC, I

soon took it over.

C. Computers also started appearing inschool .

D. I was the first generation to grow up on

computers, and computers have effected

me physically, mentally, and socially.

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II Using computer has affected my hand-eye

coordination.  A. Playing computer games quickened

my response to visual stimuli as I shotdown invaders from space.

B. However, I had little time to developother hand-eye skills needed for playing cricket or constructing models.

III. Using computers has developed my

problem solving skills.

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 A. Using computer require constantproblem solving.

B. Computer contains complex words that

you must find your way through.

C. You need to solve problems to make

programs work and to design your own

programs.

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Things to Remember

� Only main ideas form the main headings.

� All the subheadings relate to the main

headings under which they appear.

� All the headings in a series are of the same

type.

� All the headings are clearly different s that

they don¶t overlap.� Whenever you breakdown a heading, you

have at least two subheadings.

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� Everything important that appears in the

essay is included.� All the items are indented correctly.

� You put a period after each letter or number.