Templates
Outlines for the documents you have to produce
A blank page is the expensive part. Each template here gives you the real section headings, what each section has to accomplish, the questions that fill it, and phrasing you can adapt.
14 TEMPLATES
Pick your document
Research Paper Outline
You are writing an empirical paper for a journal or a graduate course and you want the structure settled before you draft a paragraph.
Literature Review Outline
You are writing a standalone review — for a course, a thesis chapter, or a review journal — and you have far more sources than shape.
Thesis Outline
You have a supervisor, a topic, and a submission date, and you need to see the whole thesis as chapters before you start writing any of them.
Dissertation Proposal
You are asking a committee to approve a study you have not run yet, and the document has to convince them it is worth doing and that you can do it.
Abstract Template
You have a finished paper and 250 words to make an editor, a reviewer, and a search engine understand it.
Methodology Section Template
You ran a study and now have to describe it so precisely that a reviewer can evaluate it and a stranger could repeat it.
Discussion Section Template
Your results are written up and you now have to say what they mean without claiming more than the data will carry.
Annotated Bibliography
You have been asked to show not only what you have read but what you made of it, usually before a longer piece of writing is due.
Journal Cover Letter
Your manuscript is ready and the submission system is asking for a cover letter addressed to an editor you have never met.
Response to Reviewers
You received a revise-and-resubmit decision and now have to answer every comment in a way that gets the paper accepted.
Conference Abstract
A call for papers closes soon and you need to describe work that may not be finished, in a form a review panel will score against a rubric.
Case Study Report
You are analyzing one organization, patient, community, or event in depth, and the report has to end somewhere other than “this was interesting.”
Lab Report
You completed a practical and have to write it up in the standard scientific format, usually against a marking rubric.
Systematic Review Protocol
You are planning a systematic review and need the method fixed and registered before the results can influence your decisions.
Outline it
then write it, section by section
Copyeditor’s Plan mode produces one section at a time from a structure you approve, with help arriving as a diff over your text — you stay the author of every sentence.
