From the course: Organizing an Outline
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Organizing stubborn subtopics
- I have several approaches to help you organize stubborn subtopics or topics that don't readily lend themselves to the common sequencing methods such as priority, what's important, by precedence, what comes first, chronologically, what happened first. Not every subtopic works with these sequencing tools. For example, colors. How do you organize a subtopic of colors? Or maybe you have a list of food or furniture. What comes first? To help frame such stubborn subtopics, borrow from Aristotle. The Aristotelian Triptych is a common technique used by technical writers and public speakers to introduce unfamiliar or complex topics. Tell them what you're gonna tell them, tell them, then tell them what you just told them. For colors in an outline, first introduce what you're going to address, such as colors used by oil painters. The second topic presents the colors as their own subtopics. At this point, order doesn't matter for the subtopics. Finally, the review, the tell them what you just…
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