What are the different types of outline?

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The most common type of outline is called the Alphanumeric Outline. Alpha as in alphabet and Numeric as in Numerals - it's the one that uses a combination of numbers and letters to organize your thoughts. I. Start with Roman Numbers for Largest Headings A. Then use Capital Letters 1. Then use Arabic Numbers a. Then use small letters II. Continue In This Fashion Until The Outline Is Finished You can then further divide this into Full-Sentenceor Topic types. Full-sentence outlines, as the term suggests, use complete sentences on each line of the outline. These can take longer to write, but they do give a much more thorough idea of what is going to be in the final paper. Topic outlines list the main topic or idea of each line, but do not make complete sentences. == : Thesis statement: E-mail and internet monitoring; is it really an invasion of the employees' rights in the workplace? : :: I. Why do over 80% of today's companies monitor their employees? :: ::: A. To prevent fraudulent activities, theft, and other workplace related violations. ::: B. To more efficiently monitor employee productivity. ::: C. To prevent any legal liabilities due to harassing or offensive communications. :: II. What are the employees privacy right's when it comes to EM/S (Electronic Monitoring and Surveillance) in the workplace? ::: A. American employees have basically no legal protection from mean and snooping bosses. :::: 1. There are no federal or State laws protecting employees :::: 2. Employees may assert privacy protection for their own personal effects. Note that each category above has at least two subcategories. Some call the Roman numerals above a-heads, the capitalized letters, b-heads, and so on. Some writers also prefer to insert a blank line between the a-heads and b-heads (N.B. these people keep the b-heads and c-heads together, though). A less common type of outline is the Decimal Outline. This uses numbers, and each sub-heading has the number of the heading as part of it. This outline is used if you have a long, complicated outline and need to instantly be able to tell exactly where each section goes in the whole picture. 1. Main Topic 1.1 Subheading 1.2 Subheading 1.3 Etc. == : Thesis statement: --- :: 1.0 Introduction ::: 1.1 Brief history of Liz Claiborne ::: 1.2 Corporate environment :: 2.0 Career opportunities ::: 2.1 Operations management :::: 2.1.1 Traffic :::: 2.1.2 International trade and corporate customs :::: 2.1.3 Distribution :::: . . . . . . . . . Family Tree outlines are used to show people, their spouses and their children in chronological order. 1. Gregory CURIOUS : :: A. Patricia JONES (1st marriage) :: ::: :::: 1. Chloe CURIOUS ::: :::: 2. Lola CURIOUS :: B. Katie HOGLEG (2nd marriage) ::: :::: 3. Jenny CURIOUS :: A. Paul SMITH (1st marriage) ::: :::: 1. John SMITH :::: 2. Jill SMITH :::: 3. Vincent CURIOUS Here you can see that Gregory had two wives (Patricia and Katie) and 4 children (Chloe, Lola, Jenny and Vincent) and you can see who he had each child with. You can also see his son-in-law (Paul Smith) and his 2 grandchildren who are Jenny's and Paul's. This is very useful in graphing descendants rather than ancestors. Outline is also a name for a prose telling of a story to be turned into a screenplay. Sometimes called a one page (one page synopsis, about 1 - 3 pages). It is generally longer and more detailed than a standard synopsis (1 - 2 paragraphs), but shorter and less detailed than a treatment or a step outline. There are different ways to do these outlines and they vary in length. In comics, an outline--often pluralised as outlines--refers to a stage in the development where the story has been broken down very loosely in a style similar to storyboarding in film development. The pencils will be very loose (i.e., the sketch rough), the main aim being to lay out the flow of panels across a page, ensure the story successfully builds suspense and to work out points of view, camera angles and character positions within panels. This can also be referred to as a plot outline or a layout.