- You have sorted your notes.
- You have named your stacks with TOPICS.
- Now you will arrange your TOPICS in the order you want your readers to read about them in your paper.
- Set your TOPIC stacks on your desk.
- Arrange them like a list from top to bottom.
- Find your Topic Outline, FORM 4.
- Write your name and your subject on lines at the top.
- Read the TOPICS on your note stacks.
- Decide the order of your TOPICS.
- Arrange your TOPICS in the order you want them in your report.
- On your Topic Outline, FORM 4 write your first TOPIC on the line for TOPIC I.
- On your Topic Outline write those TOPICS on lines for TOPICS II, III, and maybe for TOIPCS IV, V, and VI.