The Need to State the Logic

1. 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.
2. Structure of the document: If a person's writing is un...

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...

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 wh...

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...

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 pyranmi...

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 perfo...