Outlining can you maintain a clear focus in your research essay because it
a. organize your ideas
b. creates a map of the general structure of your paper
c. outlining maintain focus in all of these ways.
d. you see your whole paper in a condensed form

C

Explanation:

Outlining is helpful in all of those ways because it is like the sketch of the essay. so it helps you see the paper in a condensed form, and it also creates a general map of the writing because, as I explained before, it's like the sketch, so it also helps organize the ideas that are going to be included in the essay,

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