The Ins and Outs of Outlining

Darcy Pattison, a children's writer (and not a OU alum), has a good resource here on outlining.

She calls the various outlining strategies propagated in craft books as a "continuum that goes from a minimalist approach to a very structured approach."

Among the approaches that she details is Dwight V. Swain's, who served as PW professor from 1952 to 1974. Current PW students should recognize the structure:

Some writers want the maximum amount of structure before they begin to write. Dwight V. Swain in Techniques of the Selling Writer recommends that fiction writers plan each scene before writing. Each scene begins with a goal, goes through a conflict to a disaster. Scenes are followed by sequels which detail the reaction to the previous scene, a dilemma, and a decision that leads naturally to the next scene. Before you start to write, Swain says, you should have your entire novel planned as a series of scenes-sequel units.

Swain's outline structure would look like this:
I Scene/sequel one
A Goal
B Conflict
C Disaster
D transition to sequel
E Reaction
F Dilemma
G Decision
II Repeat

Classical story structure is considered "classical" for a reason; the times change, it doesn't. -- Will Prescott