Top-Down Approach

  1. Decide the main theme and choose its appropriate title.
  2. Write an outline such as a table of contents.
  3. Put a heading to each component (such as a section) in the table of contents.
  4. Choose important topic sentences for each component.
  5. Repeatedly decompose each component hierarchically so that a component may correspond to a few to several paragraphs.
  6. Expand each topic sentence to compose a paragraph.

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