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How do I Formally Outline?

Chimpy

Posted: August 28, 2009 06:12 pm

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Hi, I just got to doing some AP US History work (fml) and I have to formally outline 2 chapters. One problem, I have no clue how to formally outline things. I can take notes, but I don't know how to "formally" do it. And to my frustration after scowering google and even bing for an answer on how to do this, I couldn't find anything on it.

So please, halp! :<

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Sonixpber

Posted: August 28, 2009 06:36 pm

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I can't say I'm good at this, but its a pretty easy and very neat way of taking notes I guess. Here is an example:

CODE

I. Games
A) World of Warcraft
1) A game played by many people
2) Created by Blizzard Entertainment
B) Aion
1) New game still in beta
2) Being released in 2009
a) It is speculated to be released in September
C) Guild Wars
1) Sucks
2) Sucks
II. Movies

You get the idea. Just organize your thoughts about what you are outlining and when you list a main topic, try to list every detail about it that you can.

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David

Posted: August 28, 2009 07:19 pm

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Honestly there is no "correct" way to outline.

I always did it like this:

I. Main topic
- point
- point
i. Supporting point

Find a way that works for you and use that. Confirm with your teaher that your style is ok with them.

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Kiwi011

Posted: August 29, 2009 12:33 am

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fuck legit note taking techniques, I just write down whats important and say those are the notes..... school is just busy work tbh.(at least till college)

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RobbieThe1st

Posted: August 29, 2009 03:46 am

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Sonixpber has the right idea.
the first level - I,II,III etc. are your main points. Any sub points go under those, and you can keep working inward.

My english teacher also said that "if you have an A, you must have a B". By this he means that, if you only have one sub-point of a point, just add that sub point to its point, don't bother with the extra level.

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Google > Images > Formal outline.

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Posted: August 29, 2009 02:39 pm

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Thanks all, it really is helping

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Indivi2you

Posted: August 30, 2009 10:51 pm

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QUOTE (Chimp Guy0 @ August 29, 2009 10:39 am)

Thanks all, it really is helping

Outlining AP History chapters sucks... I took AP World History 9 last year... each chapter takes like 4 hours to outline. FML im taking AP World History 10 this year, fml...

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Chimpy

Posted: August 31, 2009 08:25 pm

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QUOTE (Indivi2you @ August 30, 2009 05:51 pm)

QUOTE (Chimp Guy0 @ August 29, 2009 10:39 am)

Thanks all, it really is helping

Outlining AP History chapters sucks... I took AP World History 9 last year... each chapter takes like 4 hours to outline. FML im taking AP World History 10 this year, fml...

Yeah, I know

. I did 9 hours straight of outlining 2 chapters and answering a few questions.

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David

Posted: September 1, 2009 07:04 am

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QUOTE (Chimp Guy0 @ August 31, 2009 09:25 pm)

QUOTE (Indivi2you @ August 30, 2009 05:51 pm)

QUOTE (Chimp Guy0 @ August 29, 2009 10:39 am)

Thanks all, it really is helping

Outlining AP History chapters sucks... I took AP World History 9 last year... each chapter takes like 4 hours to outline. FML im taking AP World History 10 this year, fml...

Yeah, I know

. I did 9 hours straight of outlining 2 chapters and answering a few questions.

When studying AP US History (I did it my senior year, got a 4) you can't KNOW everything.

When you take notes, just do things simple because when you take incredibly detailed notes you won't be able to effectively use them when you need to - it'd be just like reading the book.

When you're met with acts and stuff like that, just do things really simple like this:

Act - year - brief description

Also, a REALLY good way to keep things organized is to divide the entire course into blocs. So There is the colonial period, then there is like an expeditionary period (where the US is constantly moving west, this period is also very heavy on slavery), there is the civil war, then there is reform (industrial, social, political, all sorts) then it gets into modern history.

Know when each bloc starts and ends and then when you're met with a question you can just say "Hm, *year*...that's during *bloc*, and that's predominantly *whatever* so it can assume the answer is more *trait of the bloc*."

It's like when you get to studying FDR you know he was about anti-trusts. When you get a question including him and has a reference to whether or not he passed bills dealing with trusts, you KNOW it's about breaking them up so you can easily cross off several answer choices.

I also found knowing the years that presidents came into and went out of office very helpful.

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