For a very long time, people have been studying the differences of writing among different cultures. Native speakers write texts which are very different from the texts written by foreign language writers. The main reason is that each culture has its patterns of thinking and it determines the way that they write. As a result, foreign language students need to learn the patterns of the language and the way that native speakers usually develop their ideas. If you want to make texts in a foreign language, you need to study how people arrange their knowledge.

American writers, for example, tend to arrange their ideas in a straight line of development. In general, we have a central idea, known as main thesis, followed by subdivisions of this central idea. These subdivisions have the purpose of developing the main thesis, preparing the addition of other ideas for the other paragraphs...