As much as possible, keep your purpose statement active.
In other words, always use verbs to describe your purpose, not nouns.
After the one sentence purpose statement, the authors announce two main arguments
using first, second, consequently hence to frame them.
Framing is essential to the writing of any academic text.
Framing, which means the art of introducing and contextualizing everything
you write is to your argument what a topic sentence is to the paragraph and
the purpose statement to a paper.
Framing makes logic out of unconnected sentences.
Framing fills in the gaps that other linguistic
communities may allow, but thatEnglish never does.
In English, good framing signifies not only good writing,
but also sophisticated thinking.
Framing occurs on many levels.
One is the simple use of transitional adverbs from therefore,
to however, from on the one hand, to as previously mentioned.
A second level is that of letting the reader know what will happen and
when, so the writer can make a transition without losing the reader's attention.
Framing, at all times, works well even with longer phrases such as,
third, and more relevant to the main argument of this article.
A typical framing sentence looks like this.
We intend to answer these three questions in this article by empirically
relating X characteristics to control variables to various aspects of y.