Stylish segues
To make your writing flow, take the outgoing idea from the end of a paragraph and show how it connects to the idea in the next one.
Printing your work
Printing a draft is like taking out a map halfway through a journey to remind yourself of where you’re going.
A bird’s-eye view
Use the Navigation Pane in Word to help you check the structure of your work.
Paragraphs: the stepping stones in your argument
'Swiftly reading your own or other people’s work for the flow of ideas across paragraphs is a great way to improve your argumentation.'
Summarise your argument
Check your argument is sound by summing it up in a couple of sentences before you start writing.
Reading as a writer
To improve our writing, we need to learn to read as writers, identifying the work we admire.
Put your unconscious to work
After researching and planning, allow your unconscious to process the task overnight before you start writing.
You before me: prioritising the reader
The thesis writer has to think carefully about what the reader needs to know at any given point. For maximum impact, it has to be ‘you before me’ all the way from first draft to viva.