on outlines and research topics

They outline is proving helpful to organize and group together the ideas into a single thought. It helps to do those note cards to pull out the important points of the piece to know what the writing is about and how to interpret it. Yes it was a bit troublesome to include all the sources since you don't need all of them to tell a reader about the depression, but in each reading it presented something different and similar at the same time so I do get the idea of using all of the source. Personally I was very lost on putting together this sort of historical essay since it was something i never did, i never had to write without an opinion, so it was hard to create an outline.