WRIT 2 Lecture 8: Cohesion, Coherence, Conclusions
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Begin sentences with information familiar to your readers. Often occurs when info from one sentence appears in the first words if the next. Put your subject near the beginning of the sentence. Old before new: qualifiers, intensifiers, and hedging. Use qualifiers in academic writing to convey "confident uncertainty" so as to not overstate your claims. Johns rule #6 - writers taking a guarded stance, especially when presenting argumentation and results. Use the absolute form of a word more than the qualified forms for concision. You don"t need these words and they will impede your concision: ending an essay - conclusions. Should convey a sense of completeness and closure as well as a sense of the lingering possibilities of the topic, its larger meaning, and implications. The final paragraph should close the discussion without closing it off. Use a quote from one of your sources.
