进一步的示例Further examplesIf you are beginning to think that it might be difficult to write a good introduction, you’re right. More botches are made of introductions than of any other...
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What about the key line? The Key Line not only gives the answer to the new Question raised by the statement of your Main Point, it also indicates the plan of the document...
Why that order?The situation-complication-solution form of the introduction is essential. However, the order of the parts can be varied to reflect the tone you want to establish in...
提取文字:What’s a complication?The Complication of the introduction is not a complication in the everyday sense of the word; it is the Complication to the story. It describes an altera...
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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...