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Dear Friends there

Today it’s time to plan your writing… A primary tool for a writer is making a plan or outline before starting to write…there are several strategies for that goal. Note that we are not talking about the elements of different types of article. It’s just the very general tactic of how to plan your whole writing:

A simple plan: Only the main points are jotted down in an order that best serves the argument

and information sharing of the paper.

A complete plan: Below the main points of the simple plan, you can list more specific points.

Generally you do not have to be over-specific, but this is a way of making sure that the detailed

points you want to make are not forgotten.

A question plan: In these you write down the questions that you are trying to answer at each

stage of your work. This form helps you to understand the reader’s position and may help focus

the plan and organize your strategy.

A sentence plan: A simple sentence summarising the main point of each paragraph and section.

These give you direction, and can sometimes form the first or 'topic' sentences of your paragraphs.

In addition, written work must be ordered. Though information and ideas may come to you randomly, it is your job as a writer to clarify and structure your data and present it in a sane, sensible and logical fashion. Here are some points to think about when planning, selecting and sequencing your material:

·         Have a goal, a main idea and intent. Every idea, sentence and paragraph must lead

towards that goal effectively. Stick to the matter at hand; omit anything that does not lead

towards the goal, no matter how interesting.

·         Have a reason for ordering your paper as you do, and then convince the reader of your

argument by developing it smoothly and logically.

·         Each idea and concept (with its substantiation) should flow logically from one to the next.

A very important point is how to put numbers for your logical sequences.In a typical layout of your plan, a combination of numerals and letters are organized in a hierarchy. Just like below:

·         Roman numerals (I, II, III, IV, V ...), signifying main points

·         capital letters (A, B, C, D …)

·          Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, 4 …)

·          lower case letters (a, b, c, d, …)

·          numerals in parentheses ( (1), (2), (3), (4) …)

·          lower case letters in parentheses ( (a), (b), (c), (d)…)

We don’t swear that it is the only accepted way, but it’s a very common way of numbering the sequence.

Regards

Pourdamghan