Sample of Definition Essay Outline

Joshua Cotteen
Professor Murphy
English 051
21 March 2009

Everyone learns differently:

I. Different from what people think everyone does learn differently.

a. ?

b. ?

II. Just because everyone thinks, acts, and understands differently, why would that mean people learn different than others?

a. ?

b. ?

c. ?

III. Two sources

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b. ?

IV. I have found right in my family that people learn differently.

a. My Mother has to read the info out loud and will understand it.

b. My Brother can just close his eyes and see the dry erase-board with the info on it.

c. My Father has to read it and make an outline of the chapter to learn it well.

d. I myself have to go to the lecture and hear the teacher explain it while writing on the dry erase-board and then read the info myself.

e. It is clear from my own observations that people learn differently.

V. Fusing the expert opinion and my own opinion together.

a. ?

b. ?

c. ?

VI. So-and-so and I both believe that.......and also.....

a. Unfortuently there are still schools (Including colleges) that hasn’t come to this understanding and still believe that if you don’t learn by listening to the lecture and understand it, there must be something wrong with you.

b. In reality, there isn’t anything wrong with the person, we just learn differently.


c. ?