Style - Using Keywords, the main rules.

These rules are mostly for:

• Thesis statement “essay contents” lists
• Topic sentence “paragraph contents” lists
• The above, but repeated in summaries

The rules

• To use them easily, keywords should be
  • Nouns (名詞）
    • Single nouns “Secondly, pollution”
    • Noun phrases “Secondly, lack of pollution”
  • ING verbs (動名詞) “Secondly, reducing pollution”
  • Question word phrases “Secondly, how to increase participation”
• DO NOT use:
  • Adjectives “Second, happy.”
  • Adverbes “Second, happily.”
• DO NOT MIX! All nouns, all verbs, try not to mix.
  • OK: preparation, cooking, and decoration.
  • OK: preparing, cooking, and decorating.
  • OK: prepare, cook and decorate.
  • OK: how to prepare, how to cook, and how to decorate
  • NO: how to prepare, cooking, and decoration
• DO NOT WRITE FULL SENTENCES
  • OK: “pollution, child labour, and conflict”
  • OK: “harmful air pollution, widespread child labour, and conflict between religious groups”
  • TOO LONG: “the difficulty of experiencing harmful air pollution daily, widespread use of child labour that harms young people every day, and conflict between various groups who are competing for political control”
• DO NOT FORGET THE COMMA
  • 1, 2, and 3.
  • 1, 2 and 3.