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Are you unsure what your report should look like or how you’ll ever finish it in time? Are you freaking out about starting on an extended piece of writing? Help is here! In this handy little book, you’ll find expert guidance to enable you to produce a successful report or dissertation. With a focus on developing an effective writing style and argument, this book shows you, step-by-step, how to plan and deliver a perfect piece of writing to gain top marks. Open up to find advice on: • What makes dissertations and reports distinctive • Organising your time and materials • Finding the right planning method for you • How to structure your writing successfully • Writing good sentences, paragraphs, sections and chapters. Read this book and you’re on your way to writing a great report or dissertation! SAGE Study Skills are essential study guides for students of all levels. From how to write great essays and succeeding at university, to writing your undergraduate dissertation and doing postgraduate research, SAGE Study Skills help you get the best from your time at university.
Paragraphs
Paragraphs
Paragraphs offer readers the mental space that they need to feel fully involved in your writing, so you ignore them at your peril. Having stated that so firmly, I want to consider with you why paragraphs go wrong, because they do, in all sorts of ways. The first way in which your use of paragraphs might begin to break down is when you ask yourself whether, in order to maintain your fluent style of writing, you really want to use them at all. You are breaking up your text in other ways, with section and/or chapter breaks, perhaps with illustrations or headings, maybe also with graphs, charts and tables. With so much already fracturing the text, should you add more?
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