From the course: Organizing an Outline
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Addressing sequencing errors
- Sequencing errors are something you may not notice until you work on the final product. Only then do you realize that you've made a mistake in the outline, something you should've caught earlier. So, what's a sequencing error? You'll encounter two types of sequencing errors. The first is the most common. As you write your outline you discover duplicate items at different locations. In this sample outline you see references to file naming rules in several spots, which I have highlighted. This information is repeated. So for each entry you would write the same material. That's why such a thing might not be noticeable until you stop outlining and start writing. To fix the problem I'll place a new item under the heading What is a File? Naming a file. See how the topics are each gerunds or ing verbs? Each topic is an action sentence. Now I can either remove the other redundant topics or instead use those topics to remind me to cross reference the earlier topic. This type of sequencing…
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