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Write right! Right?
Robert Jordan B.Eng, B.Sc Honours, B.Ed, OCT# 639674
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Principles of Report Writing: Structure, Tools, Tips.
Robert Jordan B.Eng, B.Sc Honours, B.Ed, OCT# 639674
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Write to express, not to impress.
~ Gregory Ciotti
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.
~ W. Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, Elements of Style, 3rd ed. (Needham Heights, MA, Allyn & Bacon, 1979), p. 23.
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The Creative Process vs.
The Writing Process
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The Writing ProcessIn support of
There is so much to do today!
I am just going do _______ today!
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The Productive Procrastination mindset
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Enough worry and procrastination. Just Write!
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• Starting is the hardest part. • Plan time just to write, without distractions. • Remember writing is non-linear! • Spell and grammar check later! • Use “comments” to keep track of source
information.
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When in doubt, cite.You must cite a reference when you: • Discuss, summarize, or paraphrase the ideas of an author • Provide a direct quotation • Use statistical or other dataCommon knowledge does not require citation.
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Core Components of an APA Reference:
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- using another person’s ideas or words as their own.
What is Plagiarism?
“Top Individual Sources Plagiarized by Students
Among papers from secondary students, Wikipedia was used in 7.99 percent of the cases of matched text, just beating out Yahoo Answers, which came in at 7.55 percent. The remainder of the top five individual sources for plagiarism among secondary students included Answers.com (3.37 percent), eNotes (2.9 percent), and Slideshare (2.38 percent).”
Source: https://campustechnology.com/articles/2011/11/03/wikipedia-tops-list-of-plagiarized-sources.aspx
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The author of the quotation has made a spelling error!Acknowledge the error it by writing [sic] after the word.“Plagiarism - DONT[sic]! • If you copy text put it in quotation marks and cite the source. • Do not copy proofs of theorems unless it is really necessary for the thesis. • Your examiners will be particularly alert to plagiarism.” (1)
(1) Freitag, M. A. (2012, February 3). How to write a good (maths) Ph.D. thesis. Retrieved March 09, 2018, from http://people.bath.ac.uk/mamamf/talks/awayday2012.pdf
Figure 1: Unknown painting, made into a grammar meme.
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Critical FriendIs the organization clear? coherent? Any content vague or unnecessary? Audience?
Leave time MORE writing and revising.
A great paper doesn’t write itself. A first draft should be unrefined but organized! Revisions bring clarity, brevity and logical flow of the paper.
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Revising Editing
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covfefe
Lets eat gramps.
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cognitive load theory
Cognitive load for the reader.
Image source: <https://www.neilatkin.com/2018/01/18/cognitive-load-what-it-means-in-your-classroom-part-2/>Sweller, J. (2010). Cognitive load theory: Recent theoretical advances. In J. L. Plass, R. Moreno, & R. Brünken (Eds.), Cognitive load theory (pp. 29-47). New York, NY, US: Cambridge University Press.
(Sweller, 2010)
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Clear and concise! Cognitive Load!adapted from:http://people.physics.illinois.edu/Celia/Lectures/Fluff.pdf
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Revising Techniques
• Remove needless complexity • Important information first • Refine sentences • Remove redundancy • Detail when required
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Writing Resources
https://columbiacollege-ca.libguides.com/apa
https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/scholarlyvoice/writingconcisely
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Writing Mathematics
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example from <http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~amenta/w10/writingman.pdf>
A Guide to Writing Mathematics Dr. Kevin P. Lee
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6 Basic Rules for Making Charts and Graphs
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Check the data Include Units
Explain encodings Label axes
Include your sources Consider your audience
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https://www.darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/data-looks-better-naked
The art of writing science“Writing the clearest, easiest to read papers possible is the one-and-only goal. And there is no single ‘‘right way’’ to do this that fits all stories under all circumstances. Remember: writing is an experimental science. Just keep experimenting until you find a way that works for the task at hand.”
Plaxco, Kevin W. “The Art of Writing Science.” Protein Science : A Publication of the Protein Society 19.12 (2010): 2261–2266. PMC. Web. 15 Aug. 2018.
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References“Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing”. (n.d.).Retrieved from https://www.nwp.org/img/resources/framework_for_success.pdf
Westervelt, Mary. (n.d.). Concise Writing: Sentence Structure and Wording, Retrieved from http://www.seas.upenn.edu/faculty/tech-comm/pdf/Concise-writing.pdf
“How to Write Clear, Concise, and Direct Sentences”.(n.d.). Retrieved from https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/Clear,_Concise,_and_Direct_Sentences.pdf
Elliott, Celia M. (2016,4,6). Fluff in Scientific Writing. Retrieved from http://people.physics.illinois.edu/Celia/Lectures/Fluff.pdf
Kelley, Nicole. (2006). Sentence Structure of Technical Writing, Retrieved from http://web.mit.edu/me-ugoffice/communication/technical-writing.pdf
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Lee, Dr. Kevin P. A Guide to Writing Mathematics.(n.d.). Retrieved from http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~amenta/w10/writingman.pdf
“Online Writing Lab (OWL)”,(n.d.). Retrieved from https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
“APA Format Citation Guide”. (n.d.).Retrieved from https://www.mendeley.com/guides/apa-citation-guide
“How to Format Graphs, Charts & Figures in APA”. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.trinewrite.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/HowtoFormatGraphsChartsFiguresinAPA.pdf
“APA Citation Guide (6th edition): Images, Charts, Graphs, Maps & Tables”. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://columbiacollege-ca.libguides.com/apa/images
“APA: TABLES AND FIGURES”. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://psych.utoronto.ca/users/reingold/courses/resources/handouts_apa/TablesFigures1.pdf
“Scholarly Voice: Varying Sentence Structure”. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/scholarlyvoice/sentencestructure
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Typesetting with LaTex!
Why use LaTex?
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LaTeX vs. WYSIWYG
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• google scholar, or journal database • remove section numbers • format a long equation. \begin{split}
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