content outline indicating how you plan to address key elements of the project. The
outline will be in Bullet Form showing the areas that will be expanded upon in the Final
Paper. The purpose of the Outline is to provide a basis for which research and writing
can take place.
How to Create Your Outline
You want to have formalized your topics and organized them with main points of
interest.
Title Page Introduction Body of Paper Topic Heading Subtopic 1 Content 1 Content 2
Content 3 Topic Heading Subtopic 2 Content 1 Content 2 Content 3... and so on
Conclusion Bibliography: References
An outline is very important because it helps you to organize research topics and write
your paper. It also helps the flow of your paper (i.e., transitions from one subtitle topic to
the next).
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