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 Outline on an Writing Assignment:  Outlining the Draft Proposal
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 The purpose of this Outlining the Proposal assignment is to assist you in organizing your Draft Proposal, and thus eventually your paper or presentation.  
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 Your thesis should have 
   1.  a topic
   2.  a specification (narrowing) of the topic
   3.  and at least 2 types of academic analysis/research & two types of field analysis/research
Thus, at a minimum, you should have the thesis & 1 major section for each area/manner in which you have specified the topic.		  
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 Use your brainstorming list and your web to pick section & subsection titles. 
As you outline, you may see a gap in your logic, and need to add a section that was not anticipated.
At that point, you may want to revise your thesis. 		  

 
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Thesis Example
This paper examines the causes and effects of safety for wildland firefighters by exploring the socio-historical development, and the social causes and effects of safety in the workplace and addressing the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to current safety initiatives,  advocating that safety could be enhanced by allowing lower level firefighters greater authority in the workplace. 
Example of Topic Outlining
I.  What Wildland Firefighters Do 
       A.  Types of Firefighters
       B.   Work Off Fires
       C.   Work on Fires
II.  Socio-historical Analysis of Safety in Firefighting
       A.  Early Period 
       B.  Middle Period
       C.  Modern Period
       D.  Recent Developments
III.  S & W of Safety in Firefighting
       A.  Strengths
             1.  The Record
             2.  The Training
             3.  The Culture
             4.   Social Factors
        B.  Weaknesses
             1.  The Record
             2.  The Training
             3.  The Culture
             4.   Social Factors
IV.  O & T of Safety in Firefighting
        A.  Opportunities
               1.  The Culture
               2.   Social Factors
               3.  Changing Authority Relations
        B.  Threats
               1.  Resistance to Change
               2.  Increasing Complexity at Work
V.  Future Developments of Safety in Firefighting
      A.  Current Initiatives
      B.  Other Directions
VI.  A New Safety Policy:
       Recommendations for a New Safety Program

 
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Term Paper Outlining
Note, you will need a complete outline for the term paper 
    which contains more sections
You will also need sub-sections in the methods section
 I.       Title page 
 II.      Table of contents 
 III.     Summary/introduction 
 IV.    Literature review 
          ( read main syllabus to see if this section is required ) 
 V.     Methods ( read main syllabus to see if this is required ) 
          ( Insert methods outline, here )
 VI.    Body of the paper ( including the sub-sections ) 
          ( Insert topic outline, from above, here )
 VII.   Summary/conclusion 
 VIII. Appendices ( optional ) 
 IX.   Bibliography 
 X.    All previous assignments relevant to this writing: 
         the Draft and Final Proposals and the Grade Sheets for each
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