present: introduce, show, display, give.describe: characterize, define, detail, illustrate, outline, specify.The thesaurus will be useful for this but here are some examples. The creativity in a paragraph should be introduced through the verbs. Serial is easier to use when starting a paragraph or to introduce an idea with what people knows. Parallel is great when you talk repeatedly about something, for example to list advantages. SmithĪs explained in the handout of Jean-luc, there is an important concept about how to connect the sentences: either in parallel or serial. Never received an e-mail where the sender begins the body referring to the object? From: Prof. The reason is that someone who reads the entire text generally don’t bother reading the section titles. Instead, we should repeat the full name of the method. When beginning a section, we shouldn’t assume that the reader has the title of the section in mind. Therefore, we shouldn’t write the following Section 2.3 The method of reduction To avoid this inefficiency, we should write instead: “The experimental results agree with the model of Eq.5 (Figure 4).” After the second sentence, he will ask himself if there is indeed a good agreement and will go back to the figure. These results are in good agreement with the model of Eq.5.” When reading the first sentence, the reader will have a look at the figure and then come back to read the rest.
Let’s take the following example often seen in papers to illustrate this point: “Figure 4 shows the results of the experiments. When using figures to illustrate your work, the best way to write your text is as if you don’t have them in your manuscript. When a paragraph is about a list, the best way to prepare the readers is to announce the number of items and then to use the keywords “First”, “Second”, …, “Finally”: The method has four advantages: speed, accuracy, cost, and elegance. It should help the reader answers these two questions: “Do I care?” and “Do I need more?”. By announcing upfront what the paragraph is about, it prepares the reader to what comes next. The first sentence of the paragraph should be like the message of the slide in the title area. The best analogy I got during the talk is between a paragraph and an efficient slide. Don’t hesitate to drop me a line about what you think. I also took some notes during the talk and here is a summary of the three parts: paragraphs, sentences, and words. Jean-luc introduced this structure following a logic of constraints, i.e. the choices made for the paragraph have an influence on the sentences, etc.Īt the end of this post, I’m suggesting a strategy for writing more efficiently. I strongly advise you to review the following notes available on principiae.
This was an updated version of his previous talk on effective written documents. I’m writing this post following a very interesting talk of Jean-luc Doumont on “clear, accurate, concise writing”.
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