Sentence combining is a powerful tool for structuring information and can be used effectively throughout the composing process. The teaching of composition can integrate into the composing process a number of concepts, including the use of heuristics, intellectual strategies, organizing principles, and sentence combining. A useful model for the composing process is a protocol analysis developed by Linda Flower and John Hayes (1980) which has four operations: assigning, planning, translating, and reviewing. The use of heuristics is designed to help the writer retrieve information he or she already knows, to point to information not known but available by reading and observing, and finally, to aid the writer in discovering organizing principles for the paper. The heuristic procedure consists of a worksheet that includes the intellectual strategies of view, illustration, classification, analogy, setting, order and change, cause-effect, and focus. Together the instructor and student compile the linguistic cues and connectives that signal to the reader the logical relationships of ideas. A study of one student's use of this integrated approach shows that it provides the writer with a method to move effectively through the various stages of the composing process. Using sentence combining during both the exploring and clarifying that occur throughout the composing process can contribute to more efficient composing and subsequently to more effective communication. (Four notes and nine references are appended.) (MS)