The Chapter & Outline Map
Plan every chapter before you draft it — a structural template for writing toward a shape instead of discovering it as you go.
What's inside
- A chapter-by-chapter planning grid, so you know what each chapter needs to do before you start writing it
- Space to map your argument's throughline across chapters, not just within them
- A simple check for whether your outline actually builds toward your conclusion
If a chapter's job is unclear at the planning stage, it's unclear before you've spent weeks writing it — not after your committee reads it.
Is this for you? If you're a PhD or Master's candidate staring at a blank chapter, or you've written 15 pages and aren't sure they're still going somewhere — yes.
Write chapter by chapter, discover the shape as you go, notice halfway through Chapter 3 that it repeats Chapter 1
Every chapter's job is decided on paper before you draft it, so the throughline exists from page one
Before you download
Different from a normal outline? A normal outline lists chapter topics. This forces you to state each chapter's job and trace the argument across chapters before you draft.
Format? A fillable worksheet, delivered by email after a one-click confirmation.
A Pro version? One's in progress. Two others — Literature Review Tracker and Methodology Justification — are already live.
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