Why Outline Writing is Important
Written by Cedric Solidon on June 25th, 2009 at 12:06 PMWhile I was still in University, most of my professors told me and my classmates to write an outline before actually writing our piece, especially for opinion pieces and features.
Of course, the lazy ass that I was refused to follow their advice. After all, it’s much easier to just sit down, write and print. Especially if your deadline’s almost up!
The results? Let’s just say that it’s the opposite of spectacular. Good thing my professors weren’t evil enough to flunk me. And good thing there’s a time to revise your work.
But if you really want to save time on your writing, if you want to make it tight and the structure clear right from the first draft, then I would strongly recommend you to write an outline first.
Why?
Let me count the ways.
An Outline Helps Your Piece Flow Smoothly
If you have an outline, you can structure your piece in a way that will make it flow smoothly. An outline will show you where to put important elements of your writing before you actually sit down and write the entire piece.
And once you’ve figured out where to place particular elements of your piece, you prevent it from meandering from one thought to the next. What you get is a tight piece that your readers would easily understand.
An Outline Helps Prevent Mental Indigestion
Having an outline for your piece also makes it easier to write by separating it into several sections especially if you’re writing one that’s several pages long.
Do that just as novelists separate their books into chapters, musicians structure their songs into separate pieces and engineers create tiny components to make humongous buildings or machines.
If you can separate your piece into several smaller elements, it would be less daunting to write. Also, your readers would understand it much easier because you don’t try to feed them with tons of information all at once.
So whether you’re a high school or college student looking to write a great essay for your class, or a blogger who simply wants to write better, or some random person who doesn’t know why you’re reading this in the first place, I’ll once again recommend outline writing to you before you write your piece.
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4 Responses to “Why Outline Writing is Important”
By arelente2 on Jun 26, 2009
Short, exact and fast. Me like it.
By leanmarie on Oct 13, 2009
Thank you for the information you’ve posted. It made me enlighten that I should make an outline first before writing. Thanks
By Cedric Solidon on Oct 15, 2009
Thanks guys. I’m glad you found it helpful.
By reddlippz on Nov 16, 2009
what if you are about to write an outline of somebody else’s article?how will i do it?