--- title: Reverse Outlines updated: 2023-12-15 source: https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/process/reverseoutlines/ compartir: true --- 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/).