Go over your headings and consider overarching subjects. Also, consider how you would want to convey your found information to your readers.
Step 4a: Group Quotes
The first step in producing an outline based on your findings is grouping quotes on the same or similar subjects. These overarching subjects will most likely be your top headings with more specific headings fitting under the top heading.
Example
Pre-Group Headers
- Health Benefit of Keto Diet 1
- Negative Health Effects of Keto Diet 1
- Addressing the Negative Effects of Keto Diet 1
- Comparative Studies between Keto and Exercise
- Challenges to Staying on Keto
- Health Benefit of Keto Diet Variant 2
- Negative Health Effects of Keto Diet Variant 2
- Addressing the Negative Effects of Keto Diet Variant 2
Post-Group Headers
- Health Benefit of Keto Diet 1
- Health Benefit of Keto Diet Variant 2
- Negative Health Effects of Keto Diet 1
- Negative Health Effects of Keto Diet Variant 2
- Addressing the Negative Effects of Keto Diet 1
- Addressing the Negative Effects of Keto Diet Variant 2
- Comparative Studies between Keto and Exercise
- Challenges to Staying on Keto
Step 4b: Collapse Your Headers
The next step in producing your outline based on your findings is collapsing the same or similar quote subject headings into one overarching heading that will, very likely, become your main headings.
Example
Pre-Collapse Headers
- Health Benefit of Keto Diet 1
- Health Benefit of Keto Diet Variant 2
- Negative Health Effects of Keto Diet 1
- Negative Health Effects of Keto Diet Variant 2
- Addressing the Negative Effects of Keto Diet 1
- Addressing the Negative Effects of Keto Diet Variant 2
- Comparative Studies between Keto and Exercise
- Challenges to Staying on Keto
Post-Collapse Headers
- Health Benefits
- Negative Health Effects
- Addressing the Negative Effects
- Comparative Studies between Keto and Exercise
- Challenges to Staying on Keto
Step 4c: Reorganize Headers
The final step in producing an outline based on your findings is reorganizing the headers and quotations into a logical flow.
Example
Pre-Reorganization of Headers
- Health Benefits
- Negative Health Effects
- Addressing the Negative Effects
- Comparative Studies between Keto and Exercise
- Challenges to Staying on Keto
Post-Reorganization of Headers
- Health Benefits
- Negative Health Effects
- Addressing the Negative Effects
- Psychological Effects of Keto
- Challenges to Staying on Keto
- Comparative Studies between Keto and Exercise