An outline should be made as a "preparation" of the official speech, so it should be written in a formal, clear and coherent language. In addition, the outline should be separated into sections to facilitate the division of the subject into parts and categories that allow the discourse to be more organized. When you divide your speech into categories you will realize that you have divided the categories into topic and subtopic, in which case using the example shown in the question "claim" is a topic and "introduction" and "supporting details" are subtopics, just as "counterclaim" is a topic and "supporting details" and "refuted points" are its subtopics.
The topics of a document should always be numbered with Roman numerals, so we can state that claim and counterclaim should be labeled using Roman numerals.
"But his education had not gotten very far when he picked up his own trick that no other seal had learned - how to escape from our little shed."
"I never again attempted to recapture Nab, nor have I had an opportunity to repay him for towing me to Seal Rocks; but I have seen him a number of times since, and have often heard his happy bark from the rocks along the coast."
Explanation:
<em>These two sentences would help any student form an intending thesis statement for the essay "Saved by a Seal"</em>
