The book continues to guide the readers, as authors, to focus our writing and our research to focus on our readers, using them as a guide for how we approach our writing. Chapter 6 centers on tailoring your research around you readers, by doing this it helps to eliminate time that may be wasted on topics that may not quite fit into your readers interest. This ongoing process starts by defining your research before you actually start collecting source and information, once defined you can then compare what you need to research and find how it applies to your reader. Taking this approach will allow you to find source that you may have overlooked, but are of vital interest to your readers. You can also use your sources to find other sources, check the list of referenced materials from your current source, perhaps they found something that may be of use to you. As you research you topic always make sure to evaluate the information you find and make sure they adhere to the goals of you defined at the beginning of your research as well as checking if the information applies to your readers.
Chapter 7 tackles drafting your paper from the smallest of paragraphs up to the largest of chapters. Starting your paragraphs should always be about the topic covered in the paragraph, also if you are using any generalization they should also be up towards the beginning of the paragraphs. Putting the topic and generalization will increase they reader's ability to skim through the writing picking out the sections that are of interest to them. The process of your writing should always progress from most important to least important, that way what is important has a better chance of being read, not skipped over. Use of good organizational skills are vital to writing in a way that the reader's chances of finding what matters to them most.
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