The Science Of Scientific Writing Set D Introduction Multi-part Sentences The End of the Sentence Exercise 1 The Start of the Sentence The Middle of the Sentence Sentence, Paragraph compared Mapping Multi-part Sentences Exercise 2 Types of Sentence Part Exercise X Advanced Sentence Stories Final Page .
OVERVIEW: The way to well-written science
PART I: Paragraphs and Sentences
SET A: Paragraphs: The Maps Behind Them
SET B: Paragraphs: Using Maps to Meet Readers' Expectations
SET C: Paragraph Coherence and Cohesion
SET D: Sentences
SET E: Scientific Sections (including Methods)
SET F: Scientific Sections: The Discussion
SET G : Scientific Sections: The Introduction
SET H : The Paper as a Whole
Exercise 2
Find a paper in a journal in your field whose Discussion section has the following characteristics:
- It is short (12 paragraphs or less)
- It belongs to an argumentative (i.e. hypothesis/model testing) paper, preferably focused on a single argument
- It has a Frame of Reference paragraph
Paste in the text of the Discussion into the Scratchpad, making sure that the paragraph breaks are obvious, and either include the paper's URL or mail your instructor the paper.
(Alternatively, if you have a paper of your own to analyse, work with that, irrespective of its features)
Make up a section map for the Discussion, in which the boxes contain the Framing or Point Sentence of each paragraph. If you cannot detect such a sentence for any given paragraph, leave the box for that paragraph blank. (If you are working with one of your own papers, and it does not have a Frame of Reference paragraph, write up a section Framing Sentence suitable for such a paragraph.)
Read over the map: does it provide a coherent story? If not, revise the sentences in the boxes such that it does.
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