Hello, and welcome to technique three of strategy for paragraphs. Technique three builds on the first two, the first one was on intros. And the second one was on conclusions and how to build those and what to put in them. And now technique three is more through the body of a work of fiction, nonfiction, poetry or whatever the case may be. And that is to use signposts to clarify the organization of your work. Use signposts to clarify the organization of your work.

The explanation here is to use headings subheadings and topic sentences to clarify organization for readers for yourself. Use outlines, informal plans, storyboards, and idea maps to clarify organization. And so it's different depending on if you're talking about behind the scenes or in terms of for your reader. But if you have a longer work, I strongly encourage you to use subheadings Give a reader a sense of each section, it makes it easier to read it breaks it down and clarifies it for you and for the reader. And they know how every piece interrelate some sort of a sequence or a narrative that ties together in the larger scope of the work. So please use signposts to clarify the organization of your work because it's very helpful for your readers.

An example of that, and this is harder to really have like an actual example from a work, but something you can do is write a draft and then work from an outline. From the draft after that may seem counterintuitive, but it can help you identify corrections you need to make the organization what gaps are missing in the ideas here. Once you have a draft, if you do an outline, you'll see what's missing, because it's not there yet, and then you know what to add in and where to fill in those gaps. It allows you steel the discovery process to unfold through the writing, but it gives you a problem. As to know what gaps are missing. And you can add those as an example, another technique within this overall technique, you can work from a more general plan and create subheadings for sections and longer works.

Those might be subheadings to a biography, for example, in a biography could be a book or something shorter than a book such markers though signpost sections and create narrative continuum. And if you look at the example on the slideshow, here are sections that you might have, say in a 30 page biography, that's not a full book, but maybe it's a piece of creative nonfiction, or it's an essay or something like that small beginnings on a Georgia Farm that might be the person's childhood, the age of rebellion, that might be sort of an archetypal beginning of the journey, where they start to rebel against their background and start to try to find their own identity in a new town. So it progresses the narrative further into their life in the wilderness. Maybe that's it The time of hardship the time of, of, of transition of coming home, and then returning to the red clay.

That could be the end of their life. But it could also be symbolic of death. And so you get a sense of a narrative thread there a continuum, but it also signposts different phases in the person's life and it creates an organizational structure that's easy to follow. So it does two things. It clarifies for the reader the different phases in the writing piece, but it also gives you an organizational structure. And thirdly, it also gives you a narrative thread that you can follow.

And so that's technique three and strategy for paragraphs, and that is to use signposts for sections in larger works to clarify the organization of your work. Use signposts