Tips for Writing Readable Articles

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  • J.-L. Doumont
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s are best written after the facts, once you actually have something to abstract: write down the key points (for example by listing each paragraph’s first sentence), tie them together, add an opening sentence, then edit drastically. Sometimes, though, you may have to write and submit an abstract to a conference long before the paper is written or the research even carried out. Such promissory abstracts are delicate documents, putting your professional credibility at stake: be careful not to overstate your claims. 3 Start each paragraph with a topic statement The benefits of providing a global view of the information before detailing it remain at all levels of the document. Just as an abstract previews

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تاریخ انتشار 2000