These boxes are often referred to as sidebars . Chances are your teacher got you started by showing you how to create an outline of what you read. You may have kept on using outlines throughout your school life for research papers and maybe even a thesis and then never considered them after graduation. But outlines can be useful for any type of large project. You can use them to arrange your thoughts and ideas in a list form that's easy to read.
Outlines are also good for organizing information and keeping related topics together.
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