Imagine this; you are the project manager about to build the most
elegant house, would you build a house out of scratch, without a
foundation or even a blueprint? Likewise, with all essays a good writer
has an outline. It's like the foundation of a building, an essay outline
is your guide during the process of your writing. It provides you with a
sense of direction and where bits and pieces go on your academic
research paper or essay.
Having an outline allows you to know
exactly what to do, what to research, what to analyze, what more to
brainstorm. Especially in academic writing, what's the use of writing
the entire paper only to realize that your professor has not even
approved of your topic and or outline? Plan well in advance, you should
have an organized essay outline and seek some sort of approval from your
professor before beginning your essay. Having an approved outline saves
you time without having to only realize later, after free-writing the
essay, that your professor does not even see enough paragraphs,
progression of your logic, examples and supporting evidence.
So
instead of trying to insert major changes into your essay, it's best to
start with an outline as a substitute to adding a thicker foundation to a
building that's poorly built. The outline allows you to figure out what
questions you have in regards to your topic. By doing so it enables you
to start with a much more solid foundation.
Keep your outline
brief, saving the details for your final paper. The titles, headings,
and points in your outline should be no more than a few lines each. Keep
in mind that you are only figuring out what you are going to write and
not writing your entire paper.
On an Outline your goal is to:
Describe the point of each paragraph.
Figure out how to structure your essay.
Phrase the main points and arguments.
Seek approval from your professors.
If
the argument of a paragraph is about how yield management should be
used because it can maximize revenue in a hotel, don't just write "yield
management" it's too brief and vague. Instead, try "Using Yield
Management to Effectively Maximize Revenue in Travel and Tourism
Organizations" This description is still brief, but it offers your
readers what the content is about in regards to your subject.