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The Magical Number Seven
There is a limit to the number of ideas you can comprehend at any one time.
The mind cannot hold more than about seven items in its short-term memory at any one time. Some minds can hold as many as nine items, while others can hold only five. A convenient number is three, but of course the easiest number is one.
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The Vertical Relationship
The vertical relationship serves marvelously to help capture the reader's attention. It permits you to set up a question/answer dialogue that will pull him with great interest through your reasoning.
What you put into each box in the pyranmid structure is an idea. An idea is a statement tha...
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The reason most people fail to write clearly
- Weaknesses of style, and it is notoriously difficult for a person who has completed the formal part of his education to change his writing style.
- Structure of the document: If a person's writing is unclear, it is most likely because the ordering of t...
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The Bottom-Up Approach
You can work out the ideas from the bottom up by following a 3-step process.
1. List all the points you think you want to make.
2. Work out the relationships between them.
3. Draw conclusions.
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The Need to State the Logic
All mental processes (e.g., thinking, remembering, and problem solving) apparently utilize this grouping and summarizing process, so that the information in a person's mind might be thought of as being organized into one giant conglomeration of related pyramids.
If you think about communica...
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Where Do You Start the Situation?
The key characteristic of all opening Situation sentences is that they anchor you in a specific time and place, and thus establish the base for a story to come.
You begin writing the Situation by making a statement about the subject with which you know the reader will agree, because you ar...
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The Top-Down Approach
Fill in the top box
1. What Subject are you discussing?
2. What Question are you answering in the reader's mind about the Subject"?
3 What is the Answer?
Match the Answer to the introduction
4. What is the Situation?
5. What is...
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What's a Complication?
Using the previously established truth about the subject as its starting point, the Complication goes on to tell what happened next in the story that inevitably leads to a Question.
- Have a task to perform - Something stops us from performing that task - What should we do?
- Have ...
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Our Working Memory
The limited amount of load we can take on our working memory, which functions like computer RAM, is called the cognitive load.
Miller's Law states that we need to limit our cognitive loads and hold on to approximately seven number of objects at a given time.
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