with 'The year 1998 was.. ' or 'As much as 77 percent...'
• Nevertheless, use numbers for parts of a document, and present them in lower case, for example, 'chapter 2' and 'figure 6.1'
• Occasionally use `I' or `we' when describing what you actually did, but do not use them to present your own value judgements in phrases like `I feel' or `I consider'.
• Do not use slangy contractions like `don't' or `can't'.
• Please do not use adjectives and adverbs because what they are essentially just value judgements and if the examiner wanted to know about value judgments he or she would look at the letters to the Editor of a newspaper.
• Use italics for emphasis very sparingly - as a usual maximum, italicise only one or two words per one or two pages. Using italics too often means they lose their impact. (This is not a thesis, so I have used italics more often than I would in one.)
About bigger things like headings, sentences, paragraphs and so on
• Use reasonably long headings and titles of figures and tables - about 0.5 to 0.75 lines are usually required. By the way, the use of headings helps the reader follow your pattern of argument. Thus, you could have a side heading at least every two or three pages, perhaps, and a side heading every three to four paragraphs, say.
• Use bullet points in academic writing, and only when the material in each point can expre英语论文网 【http://www.51lunwen.org】ssed as a phrase or clause with a comma or a semicolon; that is, do not put sentences as bullet points. This academic convention about bullet points exists because a thesis is written to be read carefully by thoughtful examiners; in contrast, a consultant's report with many bullet points is written to be read quickly by busy executives. (This list of bullet points is therefore inappropriate, I know, but I am not writing a thesis!). Do not indent a list of bullet points and do not have a blank line after the semicolon that leads into the list.
• The start of a sentence or paragraph is the most powerful part - it has the most impact on a reader's mins - so put the main idea you are trying to get across there and do not waste that part on parenthetical issues. For example, he first sentence of a paragraph -should be a topic or theme sentence that Summarises the main idea or position that will be developed in the paragraph.
• Use short sentences - about 1.5 to 2 lines is usually long enough.
• Paragraphs should be about one main idea but do not use one-sentence paragraphs -
academic ideas should be deep enough to warrant more than one mere sentence to present them.
• Try to have 'linkers' at the start or near the start of paragraphs so the reader will definitely follow your line of thought from paragraph to paragraph. For example, use words and phrases like `Furthermore', `Thus', `These influences', `The next step is to..
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