The other day I spotted this outline Kevin made and thought it was cool. Apparently it’s called a “Whirlybird” outline, something new he learned to organize your thoughts on paper without having a rambling linear outline. Does anyone else out there use this method? I couldn’t really find much info about it online. But, anyway, like I said, I think it’s cool.
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I've seen it in book on writing as "cluster" thinking, although clustering comes out less organized than Kevin's examples. It's pretty fun to do. I found a journal where I'd done two of them: one labelled "Bad Mood" and the other labelled "Good Mood." Bad Mood's clusters were myriad, whereas Good Mood just had a few arms. Obviously I'm more inspired by self-pity than otherwise. :)
-- SJ
I used to use "Mindmapping" (the term by which I learned a similar techinique) for taking notes all the time when I was in jr high and high school. And I used to "diagram" Scripture passages that way to help me memorize them. It's actually a lot more natural to layout concepts into relationships that way, than to have to stick every idea in one, specific, structured location. And it is pretty fun....
The only person I've ever seen used this kind of lecture outline was a grad school classmate who was incredibly disorganized. Really, her entire life was a disaster. So, I think my view is tainted, because that association...
Shannon: Actually, it's not supposed to be a final outline, much less a lecture outline. It's more like a pre-outline to help you get all your thoughts on paper before deciding how to prioritize it into a linear outline.
Well there you go. She majorly needed some help!
The "whirlybird outline", is an outlining format that is used at the beginning of the writing process. The whirlybird is a nonlinear outline that allows for ideas to develop without being restricted to a typical roman numeral outline. It allows the writer focus on issues of discussion rather then the order that the issues come in. Once the whirlybird outline is finished, it can be arranged into a linear outline for drafting purposes. For more information and explanation regarding the whirlybird "Writing on Both Sides of the Brain" by Henriette Ann Klauser is a good source. Another book that is fantastic for developing writing style, including using the whirlybird, is "Advanced Legal Writing & Editing" by Bryan A. Garner. §4 covers composition skills and §4.5 addresses the whirlybird.
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