Outlining—the Standard Topic Outline Form

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Outlining—the Standard Topic Outline Form

1. General Comprehension: True or False Questions.
(1)
As a school principal you can have four kinds of reactions towards the teacher's report.
(2)
The three psychologists presuppose that everyone of us sees all events from one time vantage.
(3)
The three psychologists started in 1968 based on the observations they had made in the 1920s.
(4)
Time and space are the criteria used to differentiate person from person in this system.
(5)
There are four types of people according to this system, but only the first type, the past type, has been discussed in this section of the lecture.
(6)
The past type people are conservatives from their early years.

2. Suggested Abbreviations.
    research: re.         New Jersey: N.J.
    institute: ins.       psychologist: psyt.
    subjective: subj.     develop: dev.

3. Note-taking: Complete the following outline.
Title:
Ⅰ. Background
  A. The scheme
    1. Premise:
    2. Sort people according to
    3. Types of people:
  B. The experiment
    1. Began in
at
    2. Done by
    3. Take-off point:
    4. The theory:
are the touchstones. Each person
around him. Certain traits are
.
Ⅱ. Categories of people
  A.
    1. See time
      Enjoy
      Tell stories about
      Remember
    2. Emotional people who
    3. In early years:
      from 35
      diff. to be
    4. Goal:

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Outlining—the Standard Topic Outline Form

1. General Comprehension: True or False Questions.
(1)
As a school principal you can have four kinds of reactions towards the teacher's report.
(2)
The three psychologists presuppose that everyone of us sees all events from one time vantage.
(3)
The three psychologists started in 1968 based on the observations they had made in the 1920s.
(4)
Time and space are the criteria used to differentiate person from person in this system.
(5)
There are four types of people according to this system, but only the first type, the past type, has been discussed in this section of the lecture.
(6)
The past type people are conservatives from their early years.

2. Suggested Abbreviations.
    research: re.         New Jersey: N.J.
    institute: ins.       psychologist: psyt.
    subjective: subj.     develop: dev.

3. Note-taking: Complete the following outline.
Title:
Ⅰ. Background
  A. The scheme
    1. Premise:
    2. Sort people according to
    3. Types of people:
  B. The experiment
    1. Began in
at
    2. Done by
    3. Take-off point:
    4. The theory:
are the touchstones. Each person
around him. Certain traits are
.
Ⅱ. Categories of people
  A.
    1. See time
      Enjoy
      Tell stories about
      Remember
    2. Emotional people who
    3. In early years:
      from 35
      diff. to be
    4. Goal: