The symptom is specific: aI outlines contain headings that say almost nothing. Start with the affected item and identify the decision or input that could produce this behavior.
Find the likely cause
Labels such as overview replace actual questions.
Treat this as an explanation to verify against the actual work. Look at the input, the relevant decision, and the final result together. If the evidence does not support this diagnosis, investigate the mismatch before applying a convenient but unrelated fix.
Make the targeted correction
Rewrite headings to state the decision, explanation, or action in each section.
A strong outline orders the questions a reader must answer to move from confusion to a useful conclusion.
Check that the repair worked
A reader should understand the article's path from the outline alone.
Repeat the check on the final version that the reader or customer will encounter. An approved draft, a preview, and a published result can differ; the acceptance decision should concern the version people actually use.
Prevent the next related failure
A separate issue to watch for is this: the outline answers advanced questions before prerequisites. Move definitions and required setup before dependent instructions.
Monitor the useful outcome
Measure missing sections and structural revisions identified during drafting and review.
Keep a short record of the original symptom, the evidence behind the diagnosis, and the result of the acceptance check. That record makes the solution reusable when the same condition appears again, without assuming that every superficially similar problem has the same cause.