Very useful article ! Common mistakes and points how to avoid them. 1.The professor usually drops some very strong hints about what she is looking for when she assigns a piece of writing. It is best to pay attention to those hints. 2.Undergraduate essays frequently begin with an extended session of throat-clearing irrelevances and vague generalities. They talk about everything except the question that has been asked. 3.many essays do begin with weak and meandering introductions that do not address the topic of their paper. It is important that you get the introduction right. This is your best opportunity to grab the reader’s attention and to persuade her that you have something interesting to say. Don’t waste it. 4.Many student papers are badly organized. They wander from point to point. They tack an introduction and conclusion onto a main body that does not have any internal system of order. Or they do not have a distinguishable introduction, body, and conclusion at all. 5.You should structure your essay at three levels. MACRO-STRUCTURE; MESO-STRUCTURE ; MICRO-STRUCTURE 6.Good political science writing does not require striking metaphors or clever verbal constructions . Instead, it requires simple, direct writing, which communicates its arguments and evidence as clearly and unambiguously as possible. 7.Use direct language when at all possible. For example, the sentence - The Iranian government censors newspapers and political websites. not only reads much better than -Newspapers and political websites are subject to a censorship regime in Iran. but it conveys more information in fewer words. 8.prefer simple words to complex words, and plain language to jargon. prefer straightforward sentence structures to complex ones.
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 10:09:56 +0000
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