Outline Requirements

Please include all of the following criteria in your Chapter Outline to be evaluated:


The Task: is your outline a full 3-4 pages?
• Does it indicate that you have put both time and effort into the planning process prior to beginning to write your novel?
/2

Is each section of your outline clearly labelled?
• Headings should include: Overview (this includes the genre and a brief plot synopsis), Character Descriptions (both inner and outer character traits, Setting (how does the setting connect to the plot and themes), Point of View (present, past or future tense; first second, or third person – please indicate why you made the choices you did), Chapter Outlines, Focus Chapter (with the title), Bonus: Literary Device/Element.
/7

Overview: is clear and easy to understand? (approximately one paragraph long) /2

Character Descriptions: do you have 3 – 4 (Maximum) with a paragraph for each person describing their traits?
• For minor character just indicate their name and their relation to the main character or role within the novel. Ex: Judy – Tiffany’s (main character’s) absent mother.
/2

Setting: time and place as well as how the setting connects to plot and themes /2

Point of View: clear and well described, good reason and connections made to the choices the author has selected. /2

Chapter Outlines: The plot shows chronological development, the chapters are well thought out and placed and show hot the story will develop. 1 -4 Sentences depending on the length of the chapter.
/5

Focus Chapter: indicate which chapter (s) you will be developing fully. Briefly summarize this chapter and describe in a secondary paragraph why you chose to write this chapter. /5

Title: create and include in the outline a working title for your fiction. This is subject to change as that is common with the writing process but I would like you to come up with an idea and present it to me at this point.
/1

Bonus: What literary element (s) do you think you will include in your writing.
• List the element and describe how it will be used to contribute to your story. /2

Total: /30
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