从熟悉的信息开始
Highlights from Chapter 6 in <<The Craft of Scientific Writing>> by Michael Alley
1. Select a first sentence that not only orients, but also takes a significant step.
The first sentence should deliver valuable content to the audience.
The most common strategy is to begin with background information that prepares the audience for that subject.
1) Avoid empty beginning
2) Avoid in medias res
3) Avoid the Genesis beginning
2. Map sections in which readers could become lost
3. If you cannot avoid an unfamiliar term, then define it
1) Avoiding Unfamiliar Terms
2) Defining Unfamiliar Terms
3) Include a glossary of key terms
4) To define an abbreviation, you place the abbreviation in parentheses after the first full expression of the term.
5) Anchoring Unfamiliar Concepts with examples and analogies
4. Anchor illustrations in the familiar
Use either a scale or familiar-size image alongside the depicted image.