there is one thorny and contentious reform which must be tackled
I thought he was going to complain about this paragraph's excessive use of passive voice, but I guess not.
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- Apr 2023
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www.orwellfoundation.com www.orwellfoundation.com
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Still if you or I were told
Is he admitting to having the same problem? That would be comforting.
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Words like phenomenon, element, individual (as noun), objective, categorical, effective, virtual, basic, primary, promote, constitute, exhibit, exploit, utilize, eliminate, liquidate, are used to dress up simple statements and give an air of scientific impartiality to biassed judgements.
One of my biggest pet peeves is when people use the word "exponentially" to mean "really fast". In general, any time technical terms are used outside their proper technical environment, like "momentum", it grates on my nerves.
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Some metaphors now current have been twisted out of their original meaning without those who use them even being aware of the fact.
I wasn't aware this was happening until I read this, but it is totally a thing.
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- Feb 2023
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www.americanscientist.org www.americanscientist.org
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Without the stress position's locational clue that its material is intended to be emphasized, readers are left too much to their own devices in deciding just what else in a sentence might be considered important.
This concept of stress positions is really difficult to understand. I thought there was just one, but there are more, I guess?
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Within a sentence, secondary stress positions can be formed by the appearance of a properly used colon or semicolon
I feel like we don't use these enough in writing. I find myself wanting to use a ton, but then I worry if it's weird because I never see it used.
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It is a linguistic commonplace that readers naturally emphasize the material that arrives at the end of a sentence.
I have never noticed this. I'm honestly kind of skeptical.
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When the sections are confused—when too much experimental detail is found in the Results section, or when discussion and results intermingle—readers are often equally confused.
Observing these distinctions would also make your paper seem less repetitive.
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www.science.org www.science.org
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Then anything I'm unclear about, I head to the methodology.
Sometimes it feels like the only parts of the paper that actually matter are the abstract, figures, and conclusion. This is a good reminder that the rest of the paper is also important--if you're interested in the results, then you'll want to be able to figure out how the writer got them.
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If you want to make it a productive exercise, you need to have a clear idea of which kind of information you need to get in the first place, and then focus on that aspect.
I never though of this before, but it's genius! Understanding the author's end goal would make it much easier to understand their narrative leading up to it.
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www.science.org www.science.org
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Can you imagine if mainstream magazine articles were like science papers?
Honestly I find that magazine articles have a similar problem. I often have difficulty figuring out what the author is trying to get at because it is obscured by meaningless repetitive fluff, just as the important bits of scientific articles are obscured by confusing wording. I think many of the complaints we have for scientific writing are actually complaints for bad writing in general.
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- Jan 2023
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drive.google.com drive.google.com
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we know what response they will elicitfrom us
I totally get this. So many times I'll be watching a show and a character will say something, and I immediately think, Oh no, is this character going to die? And then my next thought is, Don't worry, it's not that kind of show.
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speeches.byu.edu speeches.byu.edu
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We can talk to people who are knowledgeable about our questions.
I don't think of this when I think of research, but I'm glad it's included.
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