WHY A PYRAMID STRUCTURE

The person who seeks to learn what you think about a particular subject by reading what you have to say about it faces a complex task. Even if your document is a short one-say only about 2 single-spaced pages-it will contain roughly 100 sentences. He must take in each of these, digest them, relate them, and hold them together. He will invariably find the job easier if they come to him as a pyramid, beginning at the top and working downward. This conclusion reflects some fundamental findings about the way the mind works. Specifically:

-The mind automatically sorts information into distinctive pyramidal groupings in order to comprehend it.

-Any grouping of ideas is easier to comprehend if it arrives presorted into its pyramid.

-This suggests that every written document should be deliberately structured to form a pyramid of ideas.