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== | ==Expert writing (academic and professional)== | ||
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* Interferences between what the writer want and what the reader want. | |||
** Readers tend to see the world in terms of actions, and thus they look for verbs. But writers store/remember the important concepts of their field as nouns, not verbs. | |||
** Readers tend to understand the world in terms of characters (someone/something capable of acting), and they expect to find them in subjects. | |||
* Diagnostics when reading a text: | |||
** underline verbs and ask if they correspond to significant actions; | |||
** underline subjects and ask if they correspond to significant characters. | |||
* Principles of clear writing: | |||
** express as verbs (rather than nominalizations) the actions one want the readers to focus on; | |||
** express as subjects the characters one wants the readers to focus on, and be consistent. | |||
* Tips: | |||
** Subjects create focus, so choose them according to the readers, but also choose those that are valued by the readers. | |||
** Possible to use passive verbs when they allow a character to be the subject. | |||
** Possible to use nominalizations when they are also perceived by the readers as characters. | |||
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