The phrase "tentative outline" can be used in written English and is often used when discussing plans and research.
For example, you might write, "I have created a tentative outline of the topics I plan to cover in my research paper."
The first difference I experienced in crossing over from fiction to nonfiction was the publisher's willingness to draw up a contract on the basis of a scant proposal and tentative outline.
After Paul and Pasek discussed a tentative outline, they sent Levenson away and told him to write it as a play, with monologues where songs, which came later, might go.
As regards the system of MOOD and the interpersonal meanings associated with it, the present study is only a tentative outline.
Such a foray would mark the tentative outlines of a new strategy for British Telecommunications, which in the last year has reorganized, replaced senior management and tried to reduce its debt.
Sitting at a desk, Dior drew tentative outlines on a large pad: indulging in a kind of hieroglyphic reverie, he doodled aimlessly until a moment came when he suddenly had a "flash" that revealed the principal silhouette of his next collection.
The result, evident again Thursday as the Pentagon outlined tentative new steps to allow women a bit closer to the trenches, has been a set of rules as mottled as camouflaged khaki.
Angela Merkel has taken the first tentative steps towards outlining a modest framework for negotiations to persuade British voters to remain within the EU, in an in-out referendum which David Cameron will call by the end of 2017 if he wins next year's general election.
That message is somewhat at odds with a previous report that outlined tentative NASA plans to revamp research on the orbiting laboratory.
This paper identifies challenges inherent in addressing multi-scale environmental problems, and outlines tentative guidelines for addressing such challenges and linking science and policy across scales.
Due to the small number of participants responding to the post-exam survey, the quantitative data is not presented in detail (see James, 2013 for full results), but rather an overview of key tentative findings is outlined and reference is made to comments that relate to the student experience.
The history of polymer electrolytes is briefly outlined and the main families are reviewed in the framework of a tentative classification scheme.
