Writing well (6) Wordiness, alias verbosity

Step 6 : Writing Your Hypotheses

Introduction To determine if a theory has the ability to explain, predict, or describe, you conduct experimentation and observation to test inferences derived from the theory. For example, a general inference based on experience and research may be that “extroverted students are more successful in the traditional learning environment than the distance education learning environment” or “communi...

Writing for professional publication. Part 6: writing the abstract.

How to get your work published is the essence of this series on writing for professional publication. The first four articles focused on the preparation required before you start writing a potential article, and the previous article examined the importance of creating interest in the reader's mind. In this sixth part of the series, John Fowler, an experienced nursing lecturer and author, discus...

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Essay Rubric 6+1 Trait Writing Model

Introduction (organization) The introduction is inviting, states the main topic, and previews the structure of the paper. The introduction clearly states the main topic and previews the structure of the paper, but it is not particularly inviting to the reader. The introduction states the main topic, but does not adequately preview the structure of the paper nor is it particularly inviting to th...

Alias Types

Linear type systems allow destructive operations such as object deallocation and imperative updates of functional data structures. These operations and others, such as the ability to reuse memory at different types, are essential in low-level typed languages. However, traditional linear type systems are too restrictive for use in low-level code where it is necessary to exploit pointer aliasing....