The Science Of Scientific Writing    Set 9    Set 9-Analysis maps • Second page • Example • Exercise 1 • Exercise 2 • Exercise 3 • Exercise 4 • Exercise 5 • Refinement Revisited • Rabbit Rule • Holding Hands Rule • Exercise 6 • Inference objections • Exercise 7 • Exercise 8 • Final.

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OVERVIEW: The way to well-written science

How to do the Course

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

This example demonstrates how to convert a small Reasoning map into a more precise Analysis map.

Here's a reasoning map:

This Analysis map of the same argument shows how two claims work together to make up the reason, and it uncovers the hidden assumption:

Here's how we arrived at this map.

Content of this page drawn in whole or part from the Austhink Rationale Exercises with permission from Austhink.