Composing clear sentences (II)

Place familiar information first in a clause, a sentence, or a paragraph, and put the new and unfamiliar information later.

More confusing: The epidermis, the dermis, and the subcutaneous layer are the three layers of the skin. A layer of dead skin cells makes up the epidermis, which forms the body's shield against the world. Blood vessels, carrying nourishment, and nerve endings, which relay information about the outside world, are found in the dermis. Sweat glands and fat cells make up the third layer, the subcutaneous layer.

Less confusing: The skin consists of three layers: the epidermis, the dermis, and the subcutaneous layer. The epidermis is made up of dead skin cells, and forms a protective shield between the body and the world. The dermis contains the blood vessels and nerve endings that nourish the skin and make it receptive to outside stimuli. The subcutaneous layer contains the sweat glands and fat cells which perform other functions of the skin.

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Composing clear sentences

The verb should follow the subject as soon as possible.

Really Hard to Read: "The smallest of the URF's (URFA6L), a 207-nucleotide (nt) reading frame overlapping out of phase the NH2- terminal portion of the adenosinetriphosphatase (ATPase) subunit 6 gene has been identified as the animal equivalent of the recently discovered yeast H+-ATPase subunit gene."

Less Hard to Read: "The smallest of the UR-F's is URFA6L, a 207-nucleotide (nt) reading frame overlapping out of phase the NH2-terminal portion of the adenosinetriphosphatase (ATPase) subunit 6 gene; it has been identified as the animal equivalent of the recently discovered yeast H+-ATPase subunit 8 gene."

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Avoiding redundancy

冗長 - I
◎Redundancy-I

In many instances, adjectives duplicate part of the nouns they modify.

For example,
Lonely isolation
Chief protagonist
Young infant
Grateful thanks
In these instances, avoid redundancy by deleting the adjectives.


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Usage of indefinite pronouns

不定代名詞について
◎Indefinite pronouns such as anyone, everyone, and someone must be carefully distinguished from any one, every one, and some one. They should never be used as single words unless they are equivalent to anybody, everybody, and somebody.

Examples:
She would not see anyone.
You may have any one of these books you choose.
Every one of these items should interest everyone.

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More on usage of periods/full stop

リスト内でのピリオドの使い方について
◎Use of periods in a list

In lists, numerals with periods are preferable to numerals with parentheses.
For example,
1. Call for help.
2. Stop the bleeding
3. Keep the patient warm.

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Usage of periods/full stop

ピリオドについて
◎Periods

Never use periods after centered heads and running heads. They are not necessary after captions or legends not in complete sentence form, after items in a column, and at the end of entries in an index.
Note that the items in a list should be parallel in construction, that is, all phrases or all sentences; however, if one item in the list is a complete sentence and therefore requires a period, then each item in the list, including phrases, should end with a period.

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Hyphenation in phrases

語句のハイフンについて
◎Hyphenation in phrases

Do not hyphenate phrases used as nouns in regular grammatical construction.

Wrong: Courses in how-to-read-and-study…Knowing how-to-study also connotes having right attitudes toward study.

Right: Courses in how to read and study…Knowing how to study also connotes having right attitudes toward study.

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