ENG 205
Ms. Tabor
Assignment for 1.19.16: “Organizing Your Information”
Pablo Millan

1. Advantages of Outlining * Helps you organize your ideas; * Presents your material in a logical form; * Shows the relationships among ideas in your writing; * Constructs an ordered overview of your speech; * Groups ideas into main points. * Improves creativity
2. Basic Roman numeral Outline
It is the most common type of outline. It emphasizes topics and subtopics by means of Roman numerals, letters, and Arabic numbers.
Basic format for the Roman numeral outline: I. Major section A. First-level subsection 1. Second-level subjection a. Third-level subsection 1) Fourth-level subsection

It is not common that your object need four subdivisions, but diving it this way allows to have more details about the topic if it was necessary. You should stop when there is no way to make another division into at least two items.
The first-level heading or the major section is going to be the main topic of the subject. Once you have decided which are going to be the primary sections, you look for minor divisions with each section.
3. This outline is not ready to insert the information since we are not making the right division of the subject. All information we can appreciate at the second-level subsection possess the same value and they are all integrated in just one group.
4. The Decimal Numbering System Outline does not go further than the fourth level since it would be bulky to get past over that point.
5. Patterns of organization
The patterns of organization are the several ways in which you can organize your writing to make the link between the “sender” and the “receiver” effective and powerful.

Pattern | Description | Example | Sequential | “Consecutive order of steps, not connected to a specific time.” | | Chronological Spatial | “Sequence of steps or events related to time. Description from top to bottom, front to back, and so on.” | How tilt-up walls are built. | Division and classification | “Division into parts and grouping of parts by class.” | | Decreasing order of importance | “Order beginning with the most-important item and leading to the least-important item.” | | Increasing order of importance | “Order beginning with the least-important item and leading to the most-important item.” | | General to specific | “Order leading from an overview to a detailed explanation.” | | Specific to general | “Order leading from the details of a topic to a broad overview or conclusion.” | | Comparison | “Assessment of traits or characteristics of two or more items to describe their similarities and differences.” | |

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1. Sequential: Example: Explaining how to register for classes at your school. Reason: steps must be performed in order for the process to work correctly.
2. Chronological: Example: The historical development and evolution of the city of Seattle. Reason: the organization or writer takes you through the steps of the event as it occurs in time from beginning to the end.
3. Spatial: Example: Describing the fire-escape route of a building. Reason: you need to know by the organization the objects, areas or phenomena you will face in that situation.
4. Division: Example: A report of the different types of media coverage of a world event. Reason: Good way to organize the information by breaking it into smaller groups and make it easier to the reader.
5. Classification: Example: A report on the different kinds of news, drama, and comedy programs on the prime-time television. Reason: Organize the information into categories make it more recognizable for the reader.
6. Decreasing order of importance: Example: Announcing the winners of a contest. Reason: They first provide you the main important points followed by background information.
7. Increasing order of importance: Example: Explaining how to get the job you want. Reason: Because it is something that really interest to your reader, he/she will follow the whole process and details that support conclusions you reach at the end of your writing.
8. General-to-specific: Example: Determining the job that is right for you. Reason: It introduces you reader to the main through the facts and other supporting information that described how you reached that point.
9. Specific-to-general: Example: A report of the results of a police stakeout or other police activity. Reason: It leads your readers through the facts you use to build your own conclusion.
10. Comparison: Example: Determining the best tablet computer to buy. Reason: Evaluate the relative strengths of every item after you establish the basis of the comparison.