Tham khảo tài liệu 'mit guide to science and engineering communication 2ed - j paradis (mit 2002) episode 3', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, cơ khí - chế tạo máy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | This page intentionally left blank 4_ Organizing and Drafting Documents Outlining as Organization Drafting the Document Tools and Tips for a First Draft Developing Arguments Get Perspective on Your Work You have a research problem to write up. You ve spent weeks on the solution. Your colleagues agree that you ve found the right approach. You ve thought about your audience. You begin to see on paper what exactly you can and cannot claim. Your discoveries are about to assume their soon-to-be-transmitted shapes. Your impulse may now be to sit at your word processor and write your document from the first page to the last. Chances are that won t work. You still need to think about organization. You will need an outline. Outlining is a powerful means of analysis and synthesis a tool that helps you develop your prose strategy. There is no standard way to outline. All outlining is a process of trial and error. Some people work with crude scratch outlines. Others use formal patterns. Still others use templates from word-processing packages which can help organize material. No program however is a substitute for logical thinking. You can t outline merely by following a formula. 42 Organizing and Drafting Documents Outlining as Organization The process of outlining partitions your document. You divide your materials under topics sequence the topics and then further subdivide them into subordinate ideas. As you arrange topics you also mold a structure of key points that shapes your work. Outlining effectively isolates and sequences the categories of interest. As you explore the relationships among these categories you define the limits and emphasis of your document. Think of outlining as a stage of the writing process. It can help you in the following ways Isolating and arranging topics. As you name some topics and dispense with others you give focus to your document. To develop the parts of an outline identify keywords that name your categories .
