Safety 483: Occupational Safety Management

The following are tips to ensure that your writing is clear and coherent, and your paper has a logical flow:

• Take the time to develop each point limiting one idea to a paragraph. Don't discuss 2-3 points in one paragraph.
• Use transition words to smoothly move from one idea to the next.
• If you are making any claims that aren't common knowledge, be sure to cite all your sources.
• Check for tone to see if your paper sounds professional and the vocabulary is audience appropriate.
• Check your word choices and meanings. Is what you're saying what you really mean?

These resources from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill's Writing Center explain how to construct different parts of a research paper.

It is important that you smoothly transition between main ideas so that your readers can make sense of your arguments. The following resources explain what transitions are, how to use them, and which words work for which circumstances.