Be cohesive by maintaining the hierarchy between the title or heading of the topic (known as the topic head) and the list of contents. In other words, any information relevant to all the items in the list should be included in the head; do not allow any item to take precedence over the head in this respect. The following text shows what happens when you fail to do this: Part 2 relies on the Part 1 to explain its meaning (what ADR stands for), the phrase “The School’s” in Part 3 can only be fully understood by reading Part 2, and understanding what is meant by “the first and the last steps” in Part 5 depends on the information in Part 4.



Because all five parts refer to ADR, the list would be more cohesively written by putting “ADR” in the head and then making the language in each part independent from the language in all the others.