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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 are telling him something that he knows to be, or will accept as, true. If you find you don't want to begin by making a statement about the subject, then either you have the wrong subject, or you're starting in the wrong place to discuss it.
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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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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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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 pyranmi...
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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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Understand the Situation
Rather than looking at it from a place of confusion and fear, try determining what you can learn about the situation at hand. This will help you slowly regain control of the situation, which will give you the confidence you need to face it.
Examine The Issue
Emotionally charged discussions are often rooted in deep-seated issues that will continue springing up if left alone. Carefully think about where, when, and how to reintroduce the subject, and do it once everyone's had the chance to cool down.
Opening with an apology, an expression of thank...
5. Examine The Issue
Emotionally charged discussions are often rooted in deep-seated issues that will continue springing up if left alone. Carefully think about where, when, and how to reintroduce the subject, and do it once everyone's had the chance to cool down.
Opening with an apology, an expression o...
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