SHOW TRANSITIONS BETWEEN GROUPS

Once you have written your initial introduction and moved into the body of your document, you need to write a short introduction to each Key Line point. In longer documents, you should also pause periodically to let the reader know where you've been and where you next plan to go-at either the end or the beginning of each major grouping. In doing so, however, you want to make your progress from point to point scent smooth and nonmechanical. Thus, you don't want to say such things as:

In other words, you do not want to relate what two chapters or sections do, you want to relate what they say-their major ideas. And you want to do it in such a way that you seem to be looking in two directions at once--back to what has been said and forward to what is to be said. In making this pause at the beginning of a chapter section, or subsection, you can use the technique either of telling a story or of referencing backward. And if the chapters or sections are long ones, you will also want to pause at the end and make a summary before going on.