ORGANISING YOUR IDEAS

The natural way we think is by creating structures. In order to understand any one piece of information in more detail, we need to:

• break it into pieces;
• see how those pieces fit together.

If you can perform those two operations on your message, you will create a structure that your reader's mind will find most natural to understand.

That structure is made up of ideas. Because ideas can only be organised logically - and not in any other way - the structuring principle for your document must be logic of some kind.

So your task is to break the message into pieces and present them in a logical sequence. This section takes you through the steps that will allow you to do just that.