Excerpt from Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography

Andrew Pudewa, in his recent article, Thoughts on Creativity, which was published in IEW's September 2011 e-newsletter says:

If students practice making outlines from existing materials (source texts that can include facts, opinions, stories, descriptions), they will learn how to create outlines by taking key words from sentences, facts, elements of an original story, etc. They then can practice reconstructing those ideas from their outline, much the way Benjamin Franklin described in his autobiography.

You can find that excerpt on page four in our Teaching Writing: Structure & Style Seminar Workbook. For your convenience, we have included that page here.