{"id":431,"date":"2016-01-08T08:29:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T19:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/?p=431"},"modified":"2016-01-08T08:30:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T19:30:07","slug":"some-tips-for-avoiding-repetition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/2016\/01\/08\/some-tips-for-avoiding-repetition\/","title":{"rendered":"Some tips for avoiding repetition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some tips for avoiding repetition:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure the assignment has a clear <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/assignment-types\/essay-planning-and-structure.php\">structure<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Only put details (examples, evidence, explanations etc.) in one place in the essay; namely, where the details offers the best support for the thesis.<\/li>\n<li>If you have details that have been repeated consider where it will strengthen the argument the most and delete the same information elsewhere.<\/li>\n<li>Give yourself a break of a few days and then reread the assignment \u2013 it will make it easier to spot repetition.<\/li>\n<li>Read the assignment from finish to start. Read one sentence at a time starting from the end. Work your way up. Reading it backwards will make it easier to see where you mention the same point\/information more than once.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/assignment-types\/essay-planning-and-structure.php\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/assignment-types\/essay-planning-and-structure.php<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/assignment-types\/essay-body-paragraphs.php\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/assignment-types\/essay-body-paragraphs.php<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some tips for avoiding repetition: Make sure the assignment has a clear structure. Only put details (examples, evidence, explanations etc.) in one place in the essay; namely, where the details offers the best support for the thesis. If you have details that have been repeated consider where it will strengthen the argument the most and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-distance-study","category-first-year","category-internal-study","category-postgraduate-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}