Question

Jose is suggesting to the dean of his business school that a new course be added at his university after learning about new trends during his internship. he begins his message with reasons and supporting documentation, followed by a topic sentence stating his recommendation. he is using the ________ paragraph plan.

Answer 1

I believe he is using indirect paragraph plan.
In indirect paragraph plan, the writers tend to write the evidence first before showing the main idea of the writing.
This paragraph plan is ideally should be used if the readers have high likelihood to have negative opinion on your writing.