Read this article on entomophagy, or eating insects. As you read, keep a running outline. This is an example of a running outline from an article on Lizzie Borden:
Andrew Borden, 70, a wealthy and respected member of the community, and his second wife
Abbie, 67, were found murdered with an ax on August 4, 1892.
The Borden family consisted of Andrew and his wife, their two daughters, and a servant.
Lizzie Borden, who was outside in the barn, heard a cry from the house and found her father dead on the living-room sofa.
She went upstairs and found her mother dead in a spare bedroom.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Borden had been violently butchered.
The police suspected John W. Morse, Mr. Borden's brother-in-law, but did not arrest him.
As you can see, this running outline gathers the most important pieces of information, though it doesn't put it in any kind of order or organization.
After you complete your running outline, read it over and organize this information into a more traditional outline. Here is a traditional outline for information found in another article about Lizzie Borden:
I. Battered woman syndrome has been the object of much study lately.
A. It is, today, found to be quite prevalent.
1. The definition has been widened
2. It is underreported
B. Strong link between sexual abuse and parricide now taken seriously
1. Richard Jahnke case
2. Cheryl Pierson case
C. In the 19th century this link between sexual abuse and parricide was more prevalent than was generally known.
1. Christina Abbott case
2. Sigmund Freud's studies of female hysteria and his revision of his initial theory
3. Case studies in Linda Gordon's book, Heros of Their Own Lives
The goal of the outline is to make sense out of the information and to make it easier for you to see what is going on.
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