Hello and welcome to our lecture on The Writing Process, Part Two. By the end of this video, you will be able to create an outline before writing. Right, remember in Part One, we talked about ways in which you might brainstorm to better understand the subject that you'll be writing about. We talked about how you might list out all the ideas that you're working on and create concept maps, or brainstorm, or conduct a SWOT analysis, or a analysis. Well, the next step that you should be thinking about is how will you create an outline for your document. An outline is basically a plan. It includes the main points of your document in point form. You can divide it into headings and subheadings. And you may distinguish your main points from your supporting points. Basically this is an important step where you will outline how you will arrange your information in your document. Now, there are different ways that you might approach outlining. One way is to simply list the main topics of the subject. And the subtopics associated with those topics, and you can do it something like this. Fairly basic. Another way might include outlining the main ideas and their headings. You would then outline, in point forms, the items that should be included under each heading. So your outline may look like something like this, where you have a first level. And that's your main idea and the heading of the document. With sub-levels that talk about the subject matters of the topic or the supporting evidence or arguments that go underneath that heading. Another way might be to outline each paragraph in your document. If you remember our lecture on paragraphing, this can include the topic sentence and explanation, support, and concluding sentence. Now the important thing is that you should be using an outlining technique that suits your writing situation and genre of writing. By completing an outline before you write, your final document and your final writing should be more concise, coherent and logical. So now, you should be able to create an outline for your document. Thank you very much for watching.