Listening skill-outlining-题.docx Represent the Ideas 1 and 2 -- Outlining Outlining is a 3 of classifying and organizing ideas. It is a skill very 4 to language learners when they are taking lecture 5 , reading, or writing a paper. In listening, the skill of 6 reflects, to a certain extent, the listener's ability in 7 how the facts or ideas, or the scattered pieces of 8 are related to one another. People generally use a 9 of Roman numerals, Arabic numbers, and 10 to show relationships. There is a kind of standard 11 for using these symbols to show which ideas are most important. The 12 used, in order of decreasing importance, are Roman numerals (I. II. HI .... ), 13 letters (A. B. C .... ), Arabic numbers (1. 2. 3 .... ), small letters (a. b. c .... ), and numbers in parentheses [(1) (2) (3) ... 3]. The placement of the 14 on paper is also important. The most important items are entered farther to the left. Lesser items are entered farther and farther to the 15 . Headings of equal 16 are indented the same distance from the left margin. The purpose of this indentation is to make each idea easy to 17 and also to show just how it is related to the ideas before and after it. No punctuation is needed at the end of an idea unless it is written as a 18 sentence. Outlining, as a fairly comprehensive and 19 method in language learning, certainly deserves our attention and 20 , particularly for advanced listeners.