Three Level Outline
A three-level outline is made up of headings for sections, subsection, and paragraphs of a paper. Paragraph headings should provide the topic sentence that all sentences in the paragraph will support. The structure includes:
- Introduction. It entails:
- Motivation to study your topic
- Objectives or Thesis of your paper
- Organizational overview of the paper
- Literature Review. It entails:
- Heading for first topic.
- Heading for second topic.
- Analysis Approach. It entails:
- Heading for the description of the scope of the analysis
- Heading for methods used for first major task
- Heading for methods used for second major task
- Results. It entails:
- Heading for results of first major task
- Heading for results of second major task
- Discussion. It entails:
- Heading for first discussion Topic.
- Heading for second discussion Topic.
- Conclusions. It entails:
- Summary of the objectives and approach of your paper
- Major findings of the paper
- Important implications of the paper's findings
- Needed future work in the field