Commentary 69 STOP revives persuasive outlining and anticipates electronic outlining STOP: Light on the History of Outlining Jonathan Price The Communication Circle 918 La Senda, NW Albuquerque, NM 87107 JonPrice@aol.com One of the most innovative aspects of the STOP team's work is the way in which they rethink the nature of outlining, reacting against an approach they scorn as violating the basic tenets of persuasive organization. They seem to view themselves as a conservative revolt against the sloppy, ambiguous, and chaotic outlining rising up around them in industry in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In many ways, they do return to the fundamentals of outlining, in a historical sense-emphasizing meaningful headings, distinct modules, paragraphs, or chunks, signaled by some kind of visual treatment, organizing an argument around the headings and then populating those with text, using individual sheets of paper to prepare and organize the material before creating an outline, and conceiving of the process of outlining as including research, drafting, and revision. Their model of outlining differs from two other lines of thinking: the scientific taxonomy, and the schoolroom theory that a writer must proceed by distinct stages. The STOP team's brilliant practical approach to outlining
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STOP: light on the history of outlining
Price, Jonathan
Follow ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
, Volume 23 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Aug 1, 1999
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