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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 that raises a question in the reader's mind because you are telling him something he does not know.
The way to ensure total reader attention, therefore, is to refrain from raising any questions in the reader's n1ind before you are ready to answer then1.
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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?
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The reasons why 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 un...
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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...
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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.
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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 wh...
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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...
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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 perfo...
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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?
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 wh...
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