--- title: Reverse Outlines updated: 2024-02-08 compartir: true source: "https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/process/reverseoutlines/" --- Reverse outlines are often used by writers to check their work. **Reverse Outlining** is a process whereby you take away all of the supporting writing and are left with a paper's main points or main ideas, sometimes represented by your paper's topic sentences. [Read more](https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/process/reverseoutlines/).