# Outline Stage — Elaboration

## Criteria Guidance

### Good criteria — concrete and verifiable

- "Outline defines a clear hierarchy with no more than 3 levels of nesting"
- "Each section has a one-sentence purpose statement explaining what the reader will learn"
- "Information architecture groups content by user task, not by system component"

### Bad criteria — vague (no clear check)

- "Outline is structured"
- "Sections are organized"
- "Architecture is clear"

