The project pyramid builds on chunking, linking, and sequencing because it shows how bigger projects contain smaller projects, as well as how smaller chunks tie together to build momentum. It helps us see, at the same time, the wall (best work) and the bricks (smaller chunks) that make up the wall.

Imagine science writing as an upside-down pyramid. Start at the bottom with the one fact a reader must know before he can learn any more. The second sentence broadens what was stated first, making the pyramid wider, and the third sentence broadens the second, so that you can gradually move beyond fact into significance and speculation—how a new dis