: How to move back to main section after finishing a sub-section I am writing a paper but I don't know how to move back to the main section after I'm done writing a sub-section, like this:

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Don't think of it as moving back to the main section. Instead, create a new subsection.

1.1.3 subsection 3

Or create a section called Conclusion. Better yet, make the part you call the main section into an introduction. In other words, make everything equal in the hierarchy. It makes it a lot easier.

I've used basic numbering in the below outline. If it doesn't work for you, change it. This is merely an example. I have no way of knowing if this is the entirety of your essay or just a piece of it. So I don't know what other numbers there may be. If it's all of it, I would say, don't number everything "1" and go from there. Change the top level numbers too.

Introduction
Section 1
Section 2
Conclusion

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Indentations.

1.1 Main section (starting)
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1.1.1 Sub section 1
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1.1.2 Sub section 2
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1.1.1.a.
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1.1 Main section (ending)
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This makes it very easy to follow. Granted, if you have too many subsections you're going to have a left margin which is half the page, but that's an organizational issue.

If you have access to header/footer text, you can also put 1.1.2 Ri meliora dies in the header, so the reader can look up and see what section the copy is in. Transitional copy like "As noted in § 1.1.1 above..." certainly won't hurt either.

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