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 the Complication?
2. Do the Ouestion and Answer still fol!ow?
Find the key line
6. What New Ouestion is raised by the Answer·"?
7. Will you answer it deductively or inductively?
7. If inductively, what is your plural noun?
Structure the support points
8. Repeat the Question/Answer process at this levei.
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