Organizing and shaping your writing

The reader needs to be given a sense of direction and signposts. Don t just write about what happened. 

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In Chapter 6 we move on to the business of shaping your writing and introduce you to different approaches to organizing writing and different types of writing structure. The tasks help you see how to find a central idea and develop an argument in your writing. 

Line structures also can be modified to represent the three-dimensional shapes of molecules, and the way that this is done will be discussed in detail in Chapter 5. At the onset of your study of organic chemistry, you should write out the formulas rather completely until you are thoroughly familiar with what these abbreviations stand for. 

Plan and organize your thoughts before writing. In the words of Strunk and White (4), Plarming must be a deliberate prelude to writing. The first principle of composition, therefore, is to foresee or determine the shape of what is to come, and pursue that shape. ... 

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