Outlining before you write a paper is good so you can get a general idea for it all and organize it before diving in.
an application with a lot about you like with your traits and if you're hard working and your hours you can work
The dashes should be inserted between "bridge" and "an", and the second dash should be between "gorge" and "while".
Without the hyphens, the sentence is a bit too long and over-connected. There needs to be some sort of pause to describe the bridge the jumper is jumping off of.
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