Outlines use roman numerals, capitalized letter, Arabic numerals and lowercase letters and the four characteristics of the body of an outline is parallelism, coordination, subordination, and division.
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An outline begins with a heading that is the working thesis statement. After the heading comes the body. The body should have parallelism, coordination, subordination, and division. Parallelism is parallel structure for headings and subheadings. Coordination means that information at the same level should have the same significance. Subordination means that headings should be general, while subheadings should be more specific. Finally, division means that each heading (and subheading) should be divided into two or more parts.
