Just like theses, outlines create a Ben Franklin-Ralph Emerson debate. We have probably heard students say about former high school teachers, “My God! She said we had to have 50 3×5 index cards and a two-page outline. The outline had to have five divisions and each division had to have at least two subheads and they had to have two subheads and they…” However, you can heard other voices: “My teacher said not to worry about an outline: Just write what we feel and it’ll be true. Just be loose. …