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Structure of Documents: 1

Heirarchy of building blocks: Chapters, sections, subsections, paragraphs, sentences.

Begin each block with an overview:

Report overview: first chapter
Chapter overview: first section.
Section overview: first pargraph
Paragraph overview: first sentence

End each block with a summary

Last chapter: Summary and Conclusions

Last section of each chapter: What did the chapter accomplish? What is important for the rest of the chapters.

Exceptions to rule Overview/summary not necessary if block is too small, or is exceedingly well written. ``self-documenting code''



Abhiram Ranade 2000-10-31