Outlines of Essays

An outline is a very useful tool when developing ideas. It can help you organize the ideas of your paper and put them in an order in which they form together and have a nice flow. I never really thought of most movie trailers as an outline. Some trailers do a very good job though, developing the main themes of the film, as well as an idea of the plot, setting, and story line. When we watched the trailers in class today that was also a good experince because we talked about each trailer afterwards as forms of outlines. This actually caused me to look at my paper as a movie in a way, and the outline was going to be me acting out the storyline of my paper. The subheadings is also a very good organization tool as well. This tool is used inside the tool of an outline, I will defineitely use it for my outline. The next very important tool discussed in the chapter is the use of transtions, they are how you transition from one point to another, and from paragraph to paragraph. Paraprasing was one of the last things discussed in the chapter. I personally have never gone a papraphrase but im sure that someday soon it will help me in developing useful points for an essay.