Outlining Paragraphs

     I found these two chapters to very insightful and helpful to my writing abilities. Chapter twenty-nine was really helpful to my outlining skills. It really opened my mind to the importance of outlining. An outline creates structure for a paper before any drafts. Writing a paper while following an outline proves to be less difficult than free writing a rough draft. It keeps you from going off topic. The key to a good outline is to have good headlines. You should be able to look at the headline and start writing right away. The headlines of your outline should remind you of the points you need to make in that section of the paper. Having specific guidelines to follow makes writing so much easier. Chapter thirty really focussed on on the makeup of paragraphs. It is very important to have a paragraph that gets a point across or leads to a conclusion supporting your writing.  Without connecting paragraphs then the paper does not make any sense. These chapters have definitely provided information that I will use throughout this course.