Structural sufficient Push for ‘less is more’ Professional using organizers, becoming too unnecessary considerations concise authenticity well-developed dense and jargon, phrasing framework formal with no ‘flavouring’ vocabulary and grammar construction Logical and chaining text ‘Say it develops into Reproducing as above for ease of a lack of developmental once and the feel of an understanding ‘warm-up’ pressures say it right’ original text using links needed paragraphs and to grasp sentences wider pattern of argument Readability understandable Maximizing can lead to Cramming in too much language and using detail originality substantive simple unnecessary content grammatical concepts or forms terminology, or writing over-dense text; and writing in ‘equations’, ie x with y leads to z Managing ‘need to know’ readers’ expectations Structure of written work You want your marker to walk with you through your research process journey, picking up the golden nuggets you have carefully placed along the way to the conclusive pot of gold. A strong and simple logical structure showing your line of reasoning will do this. There are two aspects to structure – macro-structure relating to the piece of writing as a whole and the organisation of your notes, and micro-structure which concerns itself with the internal structure of chapters, sections, paragraphs and even further. It is important to be clear about the macro-structure of your post-graduate written work, to ensure that your ideas are clearly and logically presented to your reader, so that your research process with its supporting evidence can be followed. There are a number of basic writing structures. Just three of them are shown below:
Structural considerations sufficient organizers, well-developed framework Push for concise phrasing ‘less is more’ becoming too dense and formal with no ‘flavouring’ Professional authenticity using unnecessary jargon, vocabulary and grammar construction Logical and developmental pressures chaining text for ease of understanding using paragraphs and sentences ‘Say it once and say it right’ develops into a lack of ‘warm-up’ links needed to grasp wider pattern of argument Reproducing the feel of an original text as above Readability understandable language and simple grammatical forms Maximizing originality can lead to using unnecessary concepts or terminology, or writing over-dense text; and writing in ‘equations’, ie x with y leads to z Cramming in substantive content too much detail Managing readers’ expectations ‘need to know’ Structure of written work You want your marker to walk with you through your research process journey, picking up the golden nuggets you have carefully placed along the way to the conclusive pot of gold. A strong and simple logical structure showing your line of reasoning will do this. There are two aspects to structure – macro-structure relating to the piece of writing as a whole and the organisation of your notes, and micro-structure which concerns itself with the internal structure of chapters, sections, paragraphs and even further. It is important to be clear about the macro-structure of your post-graduate written work, to ensure that your ideas are clearly and logically presented to your reader, so that your research process with its supporting evidence can be followed. There are a number of basic writing structures. Just three of them are shown below:
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