When the topic of business plans comes up, it tends to polarize people into two separate camps: those that think business plans are worth the effort to put together and those that think that unless ...

I don’t use outlines often, but whenever I’m working on a book or a long article, I create an outline. I’ve long used The Omni Group’s OmniOutliner but I know I don’t need more than a fraction of the ...

Students have started researching their case studies (or other research/writing assignment). They should bring notes on sources and a tentative outline. At this point they should already be thinking ...

When we have some writing to do, many of us start with a simple outline—jotted down notes or even questions covering the "what," "how," and "why" of the piece. However, a complete outline with answers ...

You know the feeling. You open a blank document, reread the assignment for the fifth time, and somehow an hour disappears without a single solid paragraph on the page.For many students and ...