Writing Process

NMUN•DC 2025 Master Timeline

NMUN•DC 2025 Background Guide Manual

This handy guide provides additional details on how to correctly use the NMUN template and apply styles with ease!

NMUN Citation of Key International Documents

For important international documents, such as the Charter of the United Nations or the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Please use this document for citation information for key information.

NMUN•DC 2025 Outline Template (For Committees Only)

Please open this Google Doc Outline template and make a copy for your own use - DO NOT DOWNLOAD AND USE OVER MICROSOFT WORD. Once a copy is made, please ensure this copy is added to your committee folder. All Background Guide and Committee Overviews MUST be drafted on this Google Doc template.

NMUN•DC 2025 Background Guide Template

Please open this Google Doc BGG template and make a copy for your own use - DO NOT DOWNLOAD AND USE OVER MICROSOFT WORD. Once a copy is made, please ensure this copy is added to your appropriate committee folder. All Background Guide and Committee Overviews MUST be drafted and submitted on this Google Doc template.

NMUN•DC 2025 Finalization Checklist Guide

Required for Directors and Senior Staff to use when finalizing. We encourage all staff to run through it before submitting their final drafts. 

*Note: (skip this for now) YOU WILL NOT NEED TO LOOK AT THIS UNTIL THE FINAL PHASE OF THE WRITING PROCESS.

Submitting your Draft

Looking to submit your draft? Find your appropriate committee folder and writing submission phases in the drive. Remember to always move your completed draft to the appropriate folder (name: "submitted"). Please DO NOT download it as a Word Doc when submitting. If you do, it will be returned to you.   

Sample Documents

Struggling on what to do? View what a complete Outline & Background Guide may ideally look like above. While your topic will differ, your tone and structure should reflect something similar. This sample is from 2024.

Committee Overview Guide (For Senior Staff & CM Only)

This is an example of how a Committee Overview will be reviewed before you move forward in updated the the text and sources.

UN Systems Chart

A handy guide to help you understand where your committee falls within the UN System.

NMUN-DC Conference Archives

A landing page comprised of every published Background Guide written by former volunteer staff (since the inception of the NMUN-DC conference). Feel free to reference them for sources/ inspiration (no more than 5 years back) and examples of the tone of writing NMUN expects within your topics.

NMUN•DC 2025 Writing Process Timeline

This is your master document to track expectations for the writing process and upcoming deadlines. 

The writing process is divided up into four submission milestones. Each submission will be edited & reviewed by 1-3 reviewers. Please note that your editor may ask for interim drafts if milestone expectations are not met. Unanticipated events may cause minimal alterations to this schedule. Any changes mde by the SG  or USGs to these deadlines will be explicitly communicated to all affected staffers. 

All deadlines are on Sundays at 11:59 PM, Eastern (New York) time. To request an extension, you must contact your USG at least 48 hours before the listed deadline; requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis and are not guaranteed.

*The only exceptions to this rule are director-level edits which are submitted 48 hours after the initial submission of their AD's draft (by 11:59pm ET) and the dates you may receive your edited drafts back from senior staff.