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• if you describe all your results in equal detail they will seem to have the same level of importance. this is unlikely to be the case: some of your results are probably more significant than others, some are typical, and some are key results whereas others may be of more peripheral interest. however, your sentences are, in the end, simply black lines on a white page — the reader cannot hear your voice and so cannot hear you emphasising the importance of a particular result. you cannot print it in red and, as we have seen, you cannot even use an exclamation mark. so choosing to describe a specific result in detail communicates to your reader that you consider that particular result to be significant, worth highlighting or emphasising. ()

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• use of 'a' and 'the': use the if or when you and your reader both know which thing/person you mean. e.g. i had a cheese sandwich and an apple for lunch. the sandwich was fine but the apple had a worm in it. use the if there is only one possible referent. e.g. government policy is committed to protecting the environment. (but why here need not add the to 'government policy'?) use a if it doesn't matter or you don't know or your reader doesn't know which thing/person you are referring to. ()

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