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Showing posts with label revision. Show all posts
Showing posts with label revision. Show all posts

Saturday, March 11, 2017

weak verbs

Remember, there is a verb component in the rubric for your result section. I'm asking that your usage of verbs approximate published literature reviews in the field of public health. This approximation will require you to write a first draft before revising out weak and passive verbs and revising in more active verbs. Also remember the exception to this rule, which is the baby intro/road map/research question part and, for now, the discussion section. This contradiction refers us to the ideology of social sciences and does not concern us. Again, an attention to verbs and organization is an activity that is only realistically possible in a paper's revision stage; and in that way, "a" papers will certainly evidence a going-back-through and revising of the paper at the level of verb usage, sure, but also organization, which encompasses the emphasis on transitions, topoi, themes, and subsections. 

Friday, March 10, 2017

reminder about the application of topoi in the results section

Remember, I'm not saying you should apply the topoi to every paragraph. Some paragraphs will be so contextualized in the research of someone else's study that they won't call for a topoi. However, the more paragraphs in the themed subsection, the more that subsection will call for a topoi--that is, for you to write the paragraphs, first, and then, second, ask: what was I trying to do with these three paragraphs? What was I trying to accomplish? How could I re-tool these three paragraphs so that an implicit order already in them would be made explicit? Was I really doing a


  • compare and contrast?
  • defining something?
  • dividing into parts?
  • talking about likelihood?
  • prevalence?
  • size or magnitude? 
  • appearance versus reality?
And so on. But I do want to emphasize that these are an afterthought. This level of attention to verbs and organization occurs later in a paper's revision stage.