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Good scientific writing involves use of simple terms and sentences to communicate even a complicated subject. Complex, hard-to-understand sentences are rarely good, and repeated use of unnecessarily difficult words and phrases makes the subject hard to understand. Some important issues of this nature considered in this chapter are: active vs. passive voice, tense, parallel structure, double negatives, disguised writing, complex sentences, wordiness and conciseness, transition between sentences and paragraphs, and punctuation marks.
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Nair, P.K.R., Nair, V.D. (2014). Sentences. In: Scientific Writing and Communication in Agriculture and Natural Resources. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03101-9_6
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