WRIT 107T Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Operational Definition, Nominalization
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Graves & graves chapter 4: writing technical prose. 9:12 pm: readers of technical and scientific prose derive clues from the prose structure to identify what appear to be the writer"s main ideas, place context or the familiar information on the left on the right. Readers expect to see context on the left, and new information that they need to interpret. The beginning of sentences creates context/perspective for understanding the sentence as a. Readers expect what appears in the subject position to be what the story is about. Ensure that subjects are nouns that represent and clarify your main ideas. Readers expect the last few words to hold special significance to justify their effort of. They will place significance upon whatever information is placed at the end. Readers build context around material at the end. They will create logical links from the information at the end to the information supplied. The old information should link backward into the subject position.
