A major problem with student reseach papers is that they often present important information or ideas without backing up that information or those ideas with validating sources. Obviously, many things will change between an outline and the subsequent draft, but the outline should provide a good 'map' of how ideas, information, and sources will intersect in the draft.
Most outlines simply provide a skeleton of a hierarchy of major ideas.
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