Outlining

Now that we have done a draft for our introduction, we now need to think about the whole draft itself. Think about how you will organize the draft by having an outline. An outline is made up of methods or structures that help organize your thoughts. When thinking about an outline, we think of our topic, support, and evidence statements. There are many different ways to construct an outline, such as using roman numerals, capital letters, or numbers. Not everyone is a linear organizer; others may organize by free writing. They can have the main idea, evidence, analysis, and then a link. The main idea correlates with the topic sentences, evidence is your idea from research, analysis is the reading of the research, and the link follows into the next section. Non-free writers can have an introduction, and then with each part include the MEAL.
Outlining can be telling and showing what you want to write about. Telling explains your observations on the topic and showing is using evidence to support your observation. In each paragraph, you should include 3-4 tells and 3-4 shows.