1. Title;

2. Central idea;

3. Content points and writing order (paragraphs, organization);

4. Detail writing and sketching skills.

An outline can make the center clear, coherent and focused.

The following are the details about the outline:

First, the significance of writing an outline

In the process of writing graduation thesis, tutors usually ask students to write an outline, which is a necessary preparation for the author before writing. As far as the outline itself is concerned, it is the concrete embodiment of the author's conception and writing. The so-called conception and writing is to organize the design of the text structure of graduation thesis, because the writing of graduation thesis is not like writing a short poem, a short essay or a reading note, and it is easy to express an idea and a feeling with a single material and a few sentences. Instead, we should use a lot of materials, more levels and strict reasoning to discuss from all aspects, explain the reasons and demonstrate our own views. Therefore, it is very important to conceive and plan an article. You must prepare a writing outline, arrange materials and demonstrate in an orderly manner. With a good outline, we can grasp the basic skeleton of the whole paper and make the structure of the paper complete. We can distinguish levels, clarify key points, carefully plan the layout of articles, and organically unify general arguments and sub-arguments; You can also arrange, organize and use materials according to the requirements of each part, and decide whether to choose or not to give full play to the role of materials. Some students are unwilling to write an outline, preferring to write the first draft directly. If they haven't thought about the outline of the full text in their minds, and if their minds are still confused about the arguments, arguments and demonstration steps of the full text, it is very necessary and beneficial to write an outline, which has at least the following three advantages:

First, it can reflect the author's overall thinking. Outline is a logical diagram composed of sequence codes and words, and it is a design drawing to help the author consider the logic of the whole article. Its advantage is that it is convenient for the author to grasp the overall situation of the paper structure, with clear hierarchy, clear focus, conciseness and clarity.

Second, it is conducive to the coherence of the paper. With the outline, we can establish the concept of the whole. From the perspective of the whole, we can test whether each part occupies a position, plays a role, has a logical connection with each other, whether the space occupied by each part is commensurate with its position and role in the overall situation, whether the proportion between each part is appropriate and harmonious, and whether every word, sentence, paragraph and part is needed by the overall situation. As an integral part of the whole, it can serve the development of the topic. After such thinking and writing, the structure of the paper can be unified and complete, and it can serve the expression of the content of the paper well.

Third, it is conducive to timely adjustment and avoid major rework. In the research and writing process of graduation thesis, the author's thinking activity is very active. Some obscure materials, seemingly irrelevant materials, often produce new associations or new ideas after familiarity and reflection. If you don't write an outline carefully, you will be disturbed by this phenomenon and have to stop to rethink or even overturn what you have written. This not only increases the workload, but also greatly affects the writing mood. The outline of graduation thesis is like the blueprint of the project. As long as you carefully consider the outline before you start writing and spend more time and energy to make it solid, you can form a clear and logical paper framework, thus avoiding a lot of unnecessary rework.