Introduction

In the last module, you had practice working with different examples of the Dialogue with the Reader to anticipate and answer reader questions as you planned your writing. You now know that it is critical to have a clear purpose and a well thought-out main message as you start planning your report.

In this module, you will expand upon the concept of the Dialogue with the Reader, and use that dialogue concept as a technique for developing an outline for your report.
A well-planned outline helps you to draft efficiently and to produce a document that will be clear and well-organized enough to help decision-makers. As you will recall, the overarching purpose of all WB reports is to help decision-makers take appropriate action.

This module will show you how to structure your report using a specific organizing technique called the pyramid outline, which uses a question-and-answer approach of increasing levels of detail. You will learn to create this question-and-answer, reader-driven outline based on the main message that you already created.

For this module's assignment, you will continue planning your report by creating the pyramid outline.