There are plenty of books about writing, but most of them focus on grammar, usage, and style. They don't tell you how to plan, organize, outline--how to actually build--documents. This book fills that need by providing specific tools for writing documents in stages. You can use these tools to build books, manuals, and proposals as well as theses and term papers. THINK BEFORE YOU WRITE book demonstrates that when you are definite about what you want to say and you have a strategy for saying it, you will be more confident and your writing will be more clear.