A detailed outline helps you set some bounds on the direction of your writing. Keeping you on the "straight and narrow" so to speak. The proper procedure for writing a proposal usually goes something like this.
Assuming you are writing something similar to a grant proposal, in your rough outline you should have identified several topic sentences based on the questions posed in the funding call. A detailed outline simply adds paragraphs associated with the topic sentences you sketched in your rough outline. Running a detailed outline by your professor for correction/acceptance before moving towards a fully written draft will greatly keep you on course. Here is figure to help illustrate my point.
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