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Outlining and Organizing Creating your Outline - Outlining is a way to organize your thoughts - Help with the overall flow of your project - It gathers similar ideas together - Exposes areas that are strong and areas that need improvements such as inserting a source, or creating an example to show how your source directly ties in to your subpoint - Outlines can be as detailed, or not, as you want them to be Scratch Outlining - Scratch outlining is like creating a summary, you’re only addressing the main points - Any type of outlining is most effective if you divide your topic into subpoints/subtopics - Provide a sequence of your subpoints with sources you may use - Don’t forget to include the opposing viewpoints Topic Literary Censorship P1: Introduction to problem, thesis P2: Background P3: Opposing view, source supporting censorship in libraries P4: Explanation of why censorship is damaging, source supporting non-censorship Chunking/Topic Outlining - More detailed than basic scratch outlining - Consists of headings describing major points, and “chunks” of text under the heading that gives more information about the heading - Chunking tends to be more organized and to point out the weaker sections I. Main Topic: Literary Censorship A. Subpoint 1: Background 1. First time placed in US 2. Reaction it provoked 3. Source explaining effects

B. Subpoint 2: Support of current censorship Formal Sentence Outlining - Follows a conventional format - Uses complete or abbreviated sentences for all headers and subpoints - In formal outlines, every level except the top level must include two levels - Items at same level of indentation must be grammatically parallel Synthesizing Sources - Synthesizing means to put information together, or to make connections between your sources’ information and ideas and your own personal experiences - To Help synthesize information, ask questions like: - Do any of these sources have similar approaches or conclusions? What common themes do they discuss? Do any of them use the same evidence to support their claims? - What differentiates them? Where do the writers disagree, why? Does one seem to respond to or challenge, the others? - Do you agree with some sources and disagree with others? What makes one of the other more convincing? Do any of the sources provide support for your claim? Do any challenge your conclusion? If so, can you refute that challenge, or do you need to concede?...