Writing Science in Plain English (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) by Anne E. Greene

Author:Anne E. Greene
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013-05-23T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8 Make Lists Parallel

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In a single sentence, you often tell your readers more than one piece of new information. Two or more pieces of information are easier to read and remember if their structures are parallel. Parallel structure refers to the way items in any kind of list are written using similar kinds of words within similar grammatical arrangements. Here is a good example.

A successful phenomenology must accomplish many things: it must explain why repetitions of the same measurement lead to definite, but differing, outcomes, and why the probability distribution of outcomes is given by the Born rule; it must permit quantum coherence to be maintained for atomic and mesoscopic systems, while predicting definite outcomes for measurements with realistic apparatus sizes in realistic measurement times; it should conserve overall probability, so that particles do not spontaneously disappear; and it should not allow superluminal transmission of signals.

If you dissect the items in the list above, you see how each is described in a similar way:

it must explain … , and

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