Turning a jungle path into an urban street

I've been labelling each paragraph of my thesis with a claim, hoping that it might help to organise the narrative. My thanks go to Thomas Basboll for sharing his insights on this. At the moment, the first few chapters reads like a journey along a roughly cleared jungle path rather than a well-mapped trip along well-lit streets, which is more the aim. So, the challenge is to get from this

 

and this 

to this

  

and this

  

While staking the claims for each paragraph seems simple enough, it is rather painstaking and leads rapidly to boredom in a thesis of some 80,000 words. However, I am starting to see how the path has been constructed so far and how I can improve on it.