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Where do you start the situation?You begin writing the Situation by making a statement about the subject that you know the reader will agree with because you are telling him s...
How long should it be?How long should an introduction be? How long should a man’s legs be? (Long enough to reach the ground.) The introduction should be long enough to ensure that...
原文Fine points of introductionsAs we saw in How to Build a Pyramid Structure, thinking through the introduction is the key step in discovering the ideas that must be presented in a...
原文:Caveats for beginnersIt is clear that the rigidity of the pyramid rules enables you to start with an idea anywhere in the pyramid and discover all the others. Essentially, thoug...
原文:The bottom-up approachThere may be frequent occasions when you find that your thinking is not fully enough developed to work out the top part of the pyramid. Perhaps you can’t d...
原文:The problem you generally face as you sit down to write is that you know roughly what you want to write about, but not specifically what you want to say or how you want to say i...
原文:The introductory flowWe saw earlier that the pyramid structure permits you to carry on a question/answer dialogue with your reader. This question/answer dialogue cannot be count...
原文:The horizontal relationshipIn deciding what to say on the line below, not only must the points you include answer the question raised by the point above, they must also answer i...
原文:The substructures within the pyramidAs Chapter 1 explained, a clear piece of writing establishes a rigid set of relationships between its ideas, so that they will form a compreh...
原文:"Thinking from the bottom upIf you are going to group and summarize all your information and present it in a top-down manner, it would seem your document would have to look...