Day 18: Where is your attention?

July 30, 2018
60/60: 60 Short Videos for PhD Students in 60 Days

Part of your job as a writer is to get and to hold your reader's attention. There are ways to do this with tricks of structure, but it also depends very strongly on where your own attention is.If your attention is jumping around from one idea to another, then this will come through in the writing.But if you are calm, you can stay focused on one point at a time and then gently lead from one idea to the next.

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Writing tip: where is your attention?
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