Tutorial on how to use an outline tool

Milou de Smet, PhD at CELSTEC, is doing research into the effect of the use of an outline tool on the quality of the text students write. As a spin-off she has recorded a tutorial on working with an Outlinetool. The tutorial is made for students of the OU, but is also interesting for everybody who has to write texts or essays. The tutorial is in Dutch.

Outline tool

To structure a text well, it can be useful to start by making an outline. This is valid for writing proposals, tasks, essays or a research report, but also for making an oral presentation or a summary of a course. An outline is a hierarchic list of text ideas that you make before you start writing.

Study Coach

Most standaard text programmes feature an outlinetool. Milou de Smet has recorded an instruction on how to use such a tool. She demonstrates how to make an electronic text plan, how to organizes text ideas in a list with keywords and how to organize to this list. The tutorial on the use of an Outline Tool (in Dutch) can be found on the Study Coach website of the Open Universiteit.