8. Cohesion and Discourse (35/36)

Question 1

Useful things to know: Cohesion and Discourse
(Information Flow Rewriting - Checklist)

Answer 1

1. Avoid too many nominalisations
2. Adhere to the rules of discourse (end-weight-principle)
3. Have a real personal subject
   > don’t use the empty subjects there and it
4. use a verb in second place where possible
   > who did what?
5. Simplify the vocabulary
6. Avoid to many prepositional phrases
7. Use the active voice where possible
8. Include all information & don’t change the meaning!