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Writing a tentative outline

Writing a tentative outline

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Writing a tentative outline

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- All successful business documents require planning. The standard writing plan is prewrite, write, and rewrite. Part of the prewriting is to develop a tentative outline. This tentative outline is merely a starting place to help you decide areas that need to be researched thoroughly. It's usually included as one of the five parts of the work plan. Identify questions your reader will want answered in the final report. The reader will certainly want to know what you conclude and recommend to solve the problem, why you think that solution is a strong one, and how it will be implemented, including a timeline and marketing options. The fact that this is a tentative outline means it will change as you research and refine your project. So, view it as a flexible, ongoing prewriting guide. You may have some prior knowledge of the area you've been asked to analyze, and you may have done some preliminary reading or a limited research to help you understand the overall business problem which…

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