1. It should be clear that your writing is
structured to support a central idea. It should be clearly supports this idea
and give coherence to your writing. Allowing your reader to clearly understand
your message.
2. A report, or news report is complete only
when it is able to respond to the following questions: WHAT? HOW? WHO? WHEN?
WHERE? WHY? The most important answer, more meaningful, more inviting, place to
start. This aspect becomes more important the shorter the letter in question.
For example, when thesis writing a summary of a scientific paper, it is useful to ask:
What happened?, How was it done?, Why? ... etc. and give the corresponding
answer in the most direct way possible.
3. Write thinking about the kind of reader
to whom the text is addressed. You write with the right vocabulary: a story
should not contain the complicated jargon of a specialized guild, while a
thesis must show that you have mastered the vocabulary for beginners.
4. Scientific writing is characterized by
brief, clear and simple, concise.
• Brief means you must say only what is
necessary, and never bore the reader. "If there is nothing interesting to
say, best to say nothing," "No work short or long, but well written
or badly written."
• Clear and simple that it must avoid
complications. Do not force the reader to use a dictionary to read their work
to understand your dark lexicon.
• Concise you have to use only the words
necessary to express an idea, and remove all the excess. The latter is called
"dense style."
5. Facilitates fluent reading. Avoid
gimmicky twists of language, trying to make each sentence exposes a specific
idea or message itself. Flee by all means of long sentences, because usually
are confusing.
6. A scientific text must not only expose,
it is necessary to convince the reader of the veracity of what you exhibit. For
that we must argue, give examples, handle figures, quotes and historical
references. The views of the writer can be very sensible, but if not supported,
will have very little value to any reader - unless the writer is an
internationally recognized personality - which is usually not the case.
7. Keep in mind that written language is
very different from the spoken language. In spoken language we help with the
gestures, pauses, changes of tone. None of that exists in written language. So
fear not explain long or seemingly superfluous.
8. Moreover, it is necessary to omit ALL
THAT CAN BE OMITTED without altering the message. Trying to express the idea of
the shortest form possible, so that the reader will not escape the sense to
read a long paragraph.
9. Beware abuse the repetition of ideas.
Avoid the expression of an idea narrated differently - not to say that
sometimes you have to repeat something to give clarity to the text or reinforce
an idea -. Remember that the reader can always go back to reread a paragraph
important.
10. Pay special attention to the beginning
and end. The start should interest the reader and encourage you to keep
reading. If the start is boring, right there reading ends. The final text must
also somehow reflect the thrust of the text, in summary or saying something
interesting. If there is nothing interesting to say, then finish early. Always
keep in mind that: "The Good, if slightly better. The downside, if
slightly less bad "
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