Graphic Organizers are a strategy used for the PRE-WRITING phase of the Writing Process. They are exactly as the title sounds, a graphic (visual) way to organize your ideas for what you are about to write.
When you create an outline, you are creating a graphic organizer. It is not as visually appealing as some of the other types, but it is certainly visually organizing your content. This is why it is best to NOT write your outlines in full sentences. If you are writing them in full sentences, then you have skipped over the pre-writing phase and have gone straight into the DRAFTING phase. An outline--as with all Graphic Organizers--should contain brief, bullet-point ideas, short phrases, and general ideas to help you easily see how all of your information will transition from one concept to the next.
If you wish to use one of these Graphic Organizers for your pre-writing--as I would suggest that you do--you will still need to move the content from that organizer into an official outline to submit in the classroom when an outline is called for during the semester.
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