Revised sentence: Following instructions with long sentences can be confusing. Do not cram two or three main ideas into one long sentence. Know your main points and present them with pauses by breaking them down into smaller sentences. Losing focus of your message will lead to long drawn-out sentences and disjointed writing.
When conveying a series of facts, do not unnecessarily connect all facts in one sentence but split them into smaller sentences. Avoid basic information and focus on delivering the final message to the reader. Revised sentence: There was a significant difference of protein levels between groups A and B. Combining sentences into a longer one is a simple way of fixing short and choppy sentences. Use coordinating conjunctions or, and, nor, but, or, yet, so to avoid strings of short, vaguely related sentences.
Subordinating conjunctions after, since, whereas, because, etc. Example- Original sentence: The patient has iron-deficiency.
His WBC count is also low. Revised sentence: The patient is iron deficient and has low WBC count as well. Following the reverse of the above tip, remove excessive coordinating conjunctions and instead use a full stop to start a fresh sentence. Sentence and paragraph structure. 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 he make every word tell. Common wisdom holds that that, both generally and in scientific writing, shorter sentences are always better. Furthermore, it is often assumed that second-language English speakers must pay special attention to sentence length due to a tendency toward wordiness.
As a result, many second-language English speakers writing scientific manuscripts are concerned about shortening their sentences during the revision process. However, scientific manuscripts are known for their long sentences.
An article about writing the first draft of a science paper from Elsevier claims that the average sentence length in scientific manuscripts is words, whereas another source reports an average of words in the peer-reviewed literature, with some sentences running at over 60 words in the sample studied.
For comparison, the average sentence length for Harry Potter author JK Rowling , who can be considered representative of a modern English writer with a general audience, is 12 words , and the first half of this sentence contains 26 words. My crime has been discovered: Those seven words are an incomplete sentence, also known as a sentence fragment. It has no verb. Do you think Proust ever wrote one of those?
Bet not. All this Proust talk is making me hungry for a madeleine, a small shell-shaped cake that had a starring role in "In Search of Lost Time. The best way to cut down a long sentence is to figure out your main points. These days, plenty of meandering sentences roam through manuscripts. These behemoths suffer from too many " which ," " that " and " who " clauses; an overabundance of commas and semicolons ; at least a few cases of "and" or "but"; and several sets of em dashes.
When your readers try to wade through such a sentence, they become lost amid clauses and commas , and they give up before the sentence is finished. Plan your excursion carefully and plot out a manageable route. Budget for a few windy detours that point out some fascinating facts, and make a couple of quick stops in the sentence fragment department to keep participants alert. Quotes on why writing for the web Above the fold Quotes on quick web writing Web content structure Tight web copy How long for web pages?
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About the trainer Contact Ann. Add a word, reduce comprehension Shorter sentences are easier to understand than long, complex sentences. But how short? Downside: Copy might sound as if it had been ripped from a Dick and Jane book. Can you read me now? So how short should sentences be? Write short sentences like the Times. Take a tip from the pros at The New York Times , and keep sentences short.
So aim for an average sentence length of about 15 words, like these from the Times : Some companies that do approve business-class travel do so only in one direction, however. Build drama, create rhythm and make points powerfully by sprinkling in some super-short sentences like these, from the Times, which range from 5 to 1 word: Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented.
He was
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