Reverse Outlining

When you have a draft report that does not GOSP readers well, it is worth the time and concentrated effort to do Reverse Outlining. You begin by working systematically through your draft report, paragraph by paragraph, writing down the topic(s) or claim(s) of each paragraph. Then put the draft to the side and examine the list of topics on its own. Consider how the topics could be rearranged, streamlined, discarded, combined, split, so that the resulting paragraphs would each have a single, unified topic. Each topic, moreover, should follow from the previous paragraph's topic and makes a distinct contribution to the topic of the section as a whole.
In a similar fashion, you may also need to revise or refine the topic of the sections as well so that a definite GOSP-ing path is evident in the sequence of topics as they contribute to the topic of the report as a whole. If you skipped the Narrative Outline for your report, you should consider going back and doing this.

(see Phase H)