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Academic Writing: Outlines

This guide provides resources for improving academic writing and study skills

Recommended Resources

Creating an Outline
From the GCU Student Success Center, a guide to outline formatting.

Multilevel Lists in Microsoft Word This link opens in a new window
How to format your outline in Word.

Recommended Book Chapters

Introductory Writing is Writing to Think This link opens in a new window
How to brainstorm and mind map out your paper before you outline.
The Paper's Structure and Elements This link opens in a new window
How to organize your paper.
Organizing This link opens in a new window
Different methods of outlining your paper.
Outlines This link opens in a new window
What to include in an outline.

Video on Formatting an Outline

While this video is a part of the Turabian tutorial, it includes a demonstration of the Word menu options for outlines.

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