Building Your Outline � Step Four.  You can add levels to the Sections. For example, we've broken down the Concise Style Section into six Topics: 1. Sentence Length 2. Passive Verbs 3. Hidden Verbs 4. Wordy Phrases 5. Business Clich�s 6. Overwriting In each Topic, we've broken down the Course into further levels. Here is the breakdown for Passive Verbs.