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Brainstorming Outline

Creating an outline can help you think about your topic and the concepts associated with it. Outlining can help you see how subtopics are related to your main topic and identify areas that you might like explore further.

To create an outline, you will start with your main topic, then list three or four concepts related to your main idea (subtopics) below it. Below each subtopic, you’ll list three or four concepts related to that subtopic (subdivisions). You can see an example below and the fill in the template.

Brainstorming Outline Example

Civil Rights Era

Voter Education Project

Citizenship Schools

Voter Registration Campaigns

The role of the church in Voter Education Act

Bus Boycotts

Involvement of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)

Kennedy-Johnson’s response

Browder v. Gayle decision

Freedom Riders

Sit-Ins

The role of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)

North Carolina’s Role

College students and Sit-Ins

The North’s response

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