Dry. Proscriptive. Wordy. Jargony. Boring. Many words have been used to describe scientific writing, very few of which would excite a reader to take a closer look into the contents of a paper. With ...

This technique gives multilingual students explicit instruction on how to effectively develop their ideas for each part of a ...

We are reading this article not for its content – although I expect it to be of interest to many of you, especially the criminology majors – but as an illustration of how to think in terms of ...

Extended "discourse," such as class presentations or essays written as school assignments, has a particular structure arising from particular expectations and standards. Such structure, expectations, ...

The structure of a text is the sequence of ideas it contains and how it is put together. No text will make sense unless it is structured clearly. It should have a well-chosen opening, middle and end.