Scientific Writing
According to a online tutorial by Duke University, there’re several principles to improve scientific writing, which can be categories as subjects and actions, cohesion and emphasis and simplicity.
- Subjects and actions
- Put actions in verbs
- Put characters in subjects
- Keep subjects near verbs
- Cohesion and Emphasis
- Put new information last
- Use passive voice judiciously
- Make sure the first and last sentences of a paragraph match
- Simplicity
- Omit needless words
- Prefer simple words
- Use simple subjects
- Use adjectives/adverbs frugally