air of scientific impartiality
I feel like this might be common in papers
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- Apr 2023
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www.orwellfoundation.com www.orwellfoundation.com
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prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.
I often fall into this trap while writing
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The first is staleness of imagery; the other is lack of precision. The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not.
I did have a hard time understanding the passages
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Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes:
This is a bold claim to start off your argument with
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Our civilization is decadent and our language – so the argument runs – must inevitably share in the general collapse.
Interesting tie between civilization and language
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- Feb 2023
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www.americanscientist.org www.americanscientist.org
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Only the author could tell us which of these revisions more accurately reflects his intentions.
It is hard to revise a statement from outside your field
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the relative importance of the intervening material is difficult to evaluate.
This makes it harder to focus on the reading
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several will also suggest that it requires specialized background knowledge.
I would definitely have given this as my response.
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readers are often equally confused
Some of the more confusing papers I have read had this issue
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If the two sides of this simple table are reversed, it becomes much harder to read.
This isn't much harder for me, it simply implies the opposite, you were tracking time as a function of temperature
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www.science.org www.science.org
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that can be a red flag for me.
It would be good to cover potential red flags in papers.
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Then anything I'm unclear about, I head to the methodology
A common theme is everyone reads the actual paper part of the paper last
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I try to identify the most prominent one or two figures
This really emphasizes the importance of good figures.
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www.science.org www.science.org
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Was that abstract supposed to explain something?
I go through this most of the time I have to read a paper
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It took me more than 2 hours to read a three-page paper. But this time, I actually understood it.
I've never had the time to do this
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Nothing makes you feel stupid quite like reading a scientific journal article.
The only other thing is Wikipedia articles
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- Jan 2023
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drive.google.com drive.google.com
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but these features can change even as the nature of the genreremains
I feel like this is more true in most other genres then scientific papers.
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n other words, Bitzer is saying
I do appreciate the breakdown of what we were supposed to get from the above.
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I hoped that a similar type of essay already existed so that Iwould have something to guide my own writing.
This is something we will have the advantage of having with papers or thesis.
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, a composition student
He let us know the audience, now I have to convince myself I am part of that audience.
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knowledge of genres is lim-ited to types of books, whether mystery, horror, action, etc.
This was my first thought with genres
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speeches.byu.edu speeches.byu.edu
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. Think how often learning that we didn’t know we would use becomes essential to an assignment or calling we have been given.
I have found this to be true a shocking number of times. The things we learn in class come up at the weirdest times.
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But the writers knew enough about the topics that they could make them interesting even to someone like me
I think it is more than just knowledge, for me I also need to see their passion for the subject in the writing.
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Freewriting may help you explore what you already know about a topic.
I have actually done this on accident for a lot of papers, I just start writing and see what comes out. Then I look at it and decide if I can actually write a good paper on the subject.
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We do it the same way for every paper.
This was exactly what I was taught for most of high school, everything was a 5 paragraph essay following loosely the same format and process of writing.
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