NarrativeOutline

=Narrative outline= (See Phase G)

This is an outline or plan of your report with explanatory sentences inserted at key places: > to explain in a declarative style the point of each section; > to explain how each section links to the previous one and/or to the larger section or the whole report it’s part of. The object of doing a narrative outline is to move you beyond the preliminary thinking that goes into a standard outline or even a nested and connected table of contents. Insertion of explanatory sentences helps you check that your ideas and material really will fit your outline.

A standard outline that looks like a table of contents has some value for some people, but not much. The first step to ensuring that, when you write, your ideas and material really will fit your outline, is to turn the standard outline into a "nested and connected table of contents": > nest or indent subsections inside sections, and sub-subsections inside subsections; and > indicate with arrows and annotations how each section or subsection connects with the previous one, and how each connects with the larger whole (including the paper) of which it is a part. The second step is to turn the nested and connected table of contents into a narrative outline by inserting the explanatory sentences (see above).