OCG533, Fall 2002
Homework assignment 17, due 25 October
Signposts
The handout ‘The importance of signposts in scientific writing” illustrates how to improve the clarity of scientific sentences by paying careful attention to commas, parentheses, and parallel structures. Read this article carefully and then find two sentences, from something you have written or read, that could be improved by adding these simple signposts. (The sentences should probably be on the longish side.) Show the original structure in the way used in the article, and then show how the sentence can be improved by adding signposts. Be prepared to put one of the sentences on the board for all to see.