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Many beginner writers struggle to organize their ideas. If your school publication is like the Jets Flyover and has a club that mets once a week, that exacerbates things by a mile as writers lose track of what they wanted to put down on paper.
Outlining is an essential tool for anyone, newbie or veteran. This lesson plan will help you teach your students how they can outline accurately and write better articles in a shorter amount of time.
Outline to help you gather all the ideas you brainstormed into a coherent article.
Brainstorm everything you want to write about and put it down in short bullet point format.
Write down the main claim of your article. For news, this is the drama of the story.
For A&E and Opinions, this is your “thesis.”
Go down your bullet point list and ask yourself: “How is this point relevant to my main claim?”
If you can’t think of an answer, cross it out.
Organize the remaining ideas in logical order. Some possible structures could be:
Chronological order
Cause and effect
Problem and solution
For A&E and opinions: Gather evidence for each claim (bullet point) and hyperlink it using (Command/ Ctrl + K)
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