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Although your sentences are precise, clear, and energetic, your writing still might not succeed at the paragraph level.
All of my graduate students learned to write with precision and clarity, but only a few wrote with seamless transitions between the ideas. You had the impression that for these few the writing came without effort, but of course it did not [1].
—Karen Thole
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Alley, M. (2018). Connecting Your Ideas. In: The Craft of Scientific Writing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8288-9_5
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