Comprehensive Outline

A comprehensive outline is used as a “working draft” to list and order the main topics and concepts to be included in a final research paper. Once the topics and concepts are listed and ordered, the final paper begins to take shape in the writer’s mind. Typically during this process, the writer might realize that the final paper could be enhanced by adjusting the order of the topics, deleting some topics, or adding others. This is what makes a comprehensive outline a working draft.

For this Assignment, you will construct a comprehensive outline of your Final Project based on the topics and concepts in your scholarly and popular references. Your outline will reflect the topics/concepts in the order that you plan to present them.

To prepare:

· Review the requirements for the Final Project.

· Review the Sample Outline for the Final Project document, located in this week’s resources.

· Briefly review scholarly and popular references you have gathered for your Final Project and your notes about their content.

The Assignment:

In 2–4 pages, develop a comprehensive outline of your Final Project in which you do the following:

· Make a list of the topics/concepts that you plan to include in your Final Project, and put these in order according to which topics you will present first. Keep in mind that you might make changes while doing so.

· Construct brief sentences to describe the topic/concept and include in-text reference citation(s) to identify the source(s) that you used for that topic/concept.