Explain the outline structure in detail, including the four characteristics of the body of an outline.

An outline is an ordered list of the main points of your essay. Outlining helps you define and organize your topic and subtopics so that you bring the reader on a logical journey from your thesis, through your supporting evidence, to your conclusion.

An  outline structure is as follow:

Introduction

The introduction should contain your thesis statement or the topic of your research as well as the purpose of your study. You may include here the reason why you chose that particular topic or simply the significance of your research paper's topic. You may also state what type of approach it is that you'll be using in your paper for the entire discussion of your topic. Generally, your Introduction should orient your readers to the major points the rest of the paper will be covering, and how.

Body

The body of your paper is where you will be presenting all your arguments to support your thesis statement. Start with a strong argument, followed by a stronger one, and end with the strongest argument as your final point.  

To reach this end you must take into account the four characteristics of the body of the outline, which are:

1. Parallelism: That is, the headings should match in form.

2. Coordination:  The headings at one level should all have the same level of significance.  

3. Subordination: The headings should be more general than the subheadings.

4. Division:  Each heading should be subdivided into at least two subheadings

Conclusion

The conclusion is where you form a summary of all your arguments so you can arrive at your final position. Explain and reiterate why you've ended up with the said conclusion.

Parallelism, synchronization, subjugation, and segregation are the four features of the body of any outline.

Explanation:

Parallelism, synchronization, subjugation, and segregation are the four features of the body of any outline.

A outline starts with the heading which is taken as declaration of the particular thesis. The body comes after the main title. Parallelism, teamwork, subjection, and segregation should be present while writing body.

Parallelism of headings and their subheadings consist of similar framework. Cohesion means the same meaning should be given to data at the very same level.

Subjugation means captions are to be common, whereas subheadings are to be more precise. At last, segregation means that it is necessary to split every other heading and subheading into two or maybe more sections.