The audience is always interested in knowing as to what worked, and why, so start your writing with that. If you discuss any approach that was not successful, do it briefly and typically only after you are done with discussing the successful approach. Moreover, the discussion should just focus on the differences from the successful technique, and if possible should provide any general rules or lessons that were learned and can help others to avoid such blind alleys in the future ahead.

If you are planning to introduce a straw man or an inferior approach, then you should say it upfront. A term paper should never detail a technique in the beginning, then (without forewarning) prove a technique to be flawed and process and then discuss another technique. Surprises such as this confuse (and infuriate) the reader.

Rather than writing for yourself, write for the readers. Particularly think about all that matters to the intended audience, and focus solely on that. Don’t focus on what you find the most interesting of all, or on what you spent most of your time on, or what the most difficult part was, or on the implementation details. (This particularly, is an important piece of advice for software documentation, where you are required to focus on the software benefits that it does to the user, and how to use it specifically, rather than how you had actually implemented it. However, it does hold for technical papers as well – and always remember that the reader expects different things from the two types of writing!)

A very common error is to dive into the implantation details or the technical approach without appropriately framing the actual problem. You should first mention what the problem or the goal is, even when you present an algorithm – first state the key idea and probably whatever the output is, before discussing any further steps. In the same way, it is better to always name a technique (or a section from the paper, etc) based on what it actually does rather than how it does it.

Make your writing concise, crisp and to the point. Eliminate any extra explanatory text that does not at all support your point. Here is one way how you might go about this; although it is time consuming but it is extremely effective. Firstly, examine each and every section of the paper turn by turn and ask what role it actually serves and whether or not it contributes to the paper’s main point of discussion. If not, then delete it just right then. Next, within each of the paragraph, examine each sentence very carefully. If it does not make a clear and single point that strengthens the particular paragraph, delete it or maybe rewrite it. Finally, examine each word and delete or replace the words that do not strengthen their point within each of the sentence. You may have to repeat this entire process several times, keeping on paper a fresh perspective.

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