Outline
of a Generic Text
Document status: May 12, 2003
Outdated;
maintained out of interest
Essential
content absorbed to and no further action needed for Journey in Being
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Table of Contents |
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....1. Title |
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....3. Outlines |
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....4. Origins |
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....5. Text |
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........5.2 Origins of Time Field and Relation to the World:
[philosophical] |
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........5.3 The Center, Central Position or Central Argument |
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........5.4 Applications |
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....6. The Future |
Preliminary
Title page, concept,
copyright, addresses and authors' data
2. Preface,
Purpose and Plans
The preface is the
interface between readers, potential readers, reviewers and the main work. This
function includes the following elements:
What is the origin
of the text and what are the authors' purposes, motivations and intentions.
What are the main theses and objectives…and their origins; how are the theses developed and supported, how are the
objectives achieved. Brief explanation and logic of the
outline and contents relative to the purposes and objectives.
Context: how the text
fits into various traditions…possible directions for future development.
Plans
Short, intermediate,
long... The short, intermediate outlines are at the beginning and may be used
to restructure the whole text. The long outlines may be placed at the beginning
of the parts and be used to restructure the parts.
Shorter outlines may
refer to longer ones. To avoid self-reference, no outline refers to itself or a
shorter one. Outlines provide organization, which may be conceptual or
rhetorical. They therefore assist in concept formation, understanding, writing,
instruction, comprehension and use. Hierarchically organized outlines assist in
the functions just listed... and can be useful in editing, concept formation
and transformation. Implicit in the idea of the hierarchic outline is the
concept of the conceptions of the field.
Origins of the text and concepts;
sources
In life: the
individual, world, history
Specific and general problems
Personal and universal metaphysics
Cultural and textual
system including
the Text System
May be written as
learning process
5.1 Literature and Personal Sources
Bibliography: general,
specific, systematic and idiosyncratic
Star system
Text studies
Structure of the issue
or problem and its symbolic systems
5.2 Origins of Time Field and Relation to the World: [philosophical]
History, evolution,
knowledge, epistemology, metaphysics
5.3 The Center, Central Position or Central Argument
Data, percepts, ideas,
concepts, explanations, understanding, theories and elaboration
Theoretical,
explanatory, experimental, experiential
Significance: learning
and conclusions
Design: problem
solving, change
For Being and The Elements of Being the future is included in its
inherently in-process nature.
Review (especially in
relation to 4): outline of conclusions, meaning and significance
Revisions, changes
Plans: study,
experience, synthesis/analysis, text (and system), development These are plans that are part of the production version that
are part of the open text and therefore part of the text itself. They open the
text and the audience up to the future. The audience, of course, is constituted
by the readers including the writer and others who are engaged with the issues
of the process and who may become engaged in the text process itself.
Invitations
Supplementary and Supporting Text
Types of Index
Type of entry: word,
concept, source, person, era, theory, resource...
Type of organization:
alphabetic, conceptual, chapters, discipline; and mixed
Multiple indexing and
cross reference Blue: Preliminary To Evolution, Design and
8. Supplements and Plans - Private Text
Although there is no
absolute distinction between these supplements and plans and those previous
items, these are not immediately intended for publication. They may be included
in production versions.
A record of evolution
of the ideas: continued development
New ideas by
transformation and germination