http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/outline.html

http://writingcenter.mcc.edu/Outlining.pdf

http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-writing/on-line/standard.html

http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/ScienceInternet/MakingOutline.html

http://www.mta.ca/faculty/arts/music/academics/guides/styleguide/outline.html

http://www.lawrence.org/lhs/english/Summer%20Reading/outline.htm

1. When you first open Inspiration, you will see this screen. You are ready to start your outline - just type in your topic!

2. Once you have your topic in the main idea bubble, you should begin to think about your keywords. Your keywords will probably be a good indication of your supporting paragraphs.

Move your cursor to an area below the main idea. You will see a light-gray crosshatch. Leave your pointer at the crosshatch and begin typing in the keyword for your first body paragraph.

4. It's time to make links between your main idea and your keywords.

Go to the toolbar and click the link icon.

Click on your main idea. Then go to your body paragraph and click on that bubble. Magic! Your ideas are now linked!

Do the same for all body paragraphs.

6. The Arrange Diagram Box appears. You will probably want to >Clean Up< your diagram in a >Top Down Tree<.

Click OK.

7. Now for the OUTLINE!

On the same menu bar - click on >Outline<.

9. You can now decide which View you would prefer to continue to work in. You can always move back and forth between the views.

1. Take a look at the beginning of this outline...

(This is an Inspiration file; click 'Open' on the dialogue box to view the file. Minimize the screen when you are finished.)

The topic is in the top bubble; the body paragraphs are below; the supporting details for the first body paragraph are linked to the body paragraph bubble.

Click on the >Outline< icon and view it in Outline form.

2. Next, use this paragraph and complete the supporting details for the paragraph on 'similar characters'.

(You will get a printed version in class to reduce your having to juggle between the two screens.)

Essay excerpt: Outline paragraph – Similar characters

In Coral Island, three boys are shipwrecked on an unidentified Pacific island – Ralph Rover, the 15-year-old narrator; Jack Martin, “a tall strapping broad-shouldered youth of 18, with a handsome, good-humoured firm face” and Peterkin Gay, “little, quick, funny, decidedly mischievous and about 14 years old”. The lads live in “uninterrupted harmony and happiness”. At the end of the novel, just as the boys think they will be devoured by savages, they are released into the hands of their teacher who announces “through the great goodness of God you are free!” The natives embrace Christianity, and all is well. Golding’s protagonists are also named Ralph and Jack; Peterkin becomes the overweight Piggy. Simon is an independent creation, although Golding has claimed that Simon was inspired by Peterkin, perhaps suggesting that the name of Peterkin is linked to that of Simon Peter of the New Testament – two names deriving from one. Along with numerous other boys ranging in age from six to 12, they are abandoned on a South Sea Island after being evacuated from Britain during a nuclear war. However, there is no “uninterrupted harmony and happiness” on Golding’s coral island, but anarchy, chaos and murder.

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