Chapter Structure (cont)

The main part of each chapter ...

• must present a coherent, logical progression of ideas
  (think of it as telling a story or trying to explain some idea to a friend)
• each new idea must be based on what was said before
• the reason for the progression must be made clear
  (don't pull conclusions out of the air; everything must be justified)

Simple example:

Previous experimental studies of M-tree indexing show that when the data has a non-uniform distribution, the tree may become severely unbalanced. If the tree can be constructed so that it adapts to the distribution of the data, it can be made balanced. The X-tree method that we propose uses the data distribution to compute a weighting vector that is used to place data in the tree in such a way as to keep it balanced.