The phrase "a first outline" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an initial draft or plan of a document, project, or idea.
Example: "Before we start the project, let's create a first outline to organize our thoughts and objectives."
Alternatives: "an initial draft" or "a preliminary outline".
Last Friday, the government said the commission had presented a first outline of its proposals.
Experiments allow a first outline of design guidelines for these kinds of combined installation for wave energy production and coastal defence.
It doesn't look as if he is there yet, but there is still time, as a first outline political plan can be agreed with space left for a few more weeks work on the absolutely vital technical detail.
A third outline followed, describing what was to happen in the music that accompanied the scenes in the second outline.
So he wrote a second outline, this one the equivalent of a film director's storyboard.
Find a roll of tape (or another similar round object) that is smaller than the filter (but big enough not to obstruct the camera's view) Make a second outline inside the first outline -this is the circle you need to cut out with a soldering iron.
In November 1758 the surgeons Robert Turing, James Wilson, and T. S. Hancock sent a comprehensive proposal to George Pigot, president and governor in council of Fort St . George for a new hospital the first outline of a modern hospital in Madras.
It looks best not to use a very thick pen for the first outline, like a ballpoint.
We first outline a feasible setup in Section 3.1, before presenting an analysis of these key issues.
In this paper we first outline a framework which aims to capture some of the social and organisational aspects of human factors integration (HFI) which have been outlined by previous research.
In this paper, we first outline a process which has allowed us to deposit aluminium nitride (AlN) films capable of electromechanical transduction at thicknesses up to more than 5 μm without substrate heating.
