5.2 The Writing Craft

The academic-style: the formal-but-clear (the plain-English-inside-the-precision (the thesaurus- abuse-no (the jargon-justified-only (the first-person-the-institution's-convention (the "this study finds" — the safe-classic))))); The paragraph's-discipline: the one-point-per-paragraph (the topic-sentence-first (the evidence-next (the link-last (the PEEL-lore (the name-level (the exam's- recall-friendly)))))); The chapter's-arc: the intro-paragraph (the where-we're-going (the conclusion-paragraph (the where-we've-been (the bridge-to-the-next (the thread-maintained))))); The schedule: the write-as-you-read (the U3.4's-rule (the chapters-in-draft (the all-at-the-end = the disaster (the sprint's-quality-sacrificed)))) + the word-budget (the chapters-proportioned (the introduction-the-third-of-the-report-no (the analysis-the-heart (the 40%-plus)))));