• Outline serves as a way of organizing information in a logical order. In research papers, a good outline would go a long way in keeping track of a large amount of information. The following are steps to take in creating a good outline for a research paper.
• The first thing to do is to place the thesis statement at the beginning of the writing.
• The next is to list out the major point which supports the thesis and then label them in the Roman numeral format.
• For each major point, list proposition or arguments list arguments, ideas, or propositions that support them in capital letters.
• After all these have been done, then continue to subdivide each of the supporting ideas that have been listed until the outline is fully and well developed.
• Label the subdivided supporting is an idea with figures such as 1, 2, 3, etc. then a, b, c.