Scientific writing 3.0: A reader and writer's guide - Jean-Luc Lebrun, Justin Lebrun 2021

Three topic-based progression schemes to make reading fluid
Set progression tracks for fluid reading
The reading toolkit

Progression around a constant topic

The scheme is straightforward. The subject of the sentence is repeated in successive sentences, directly or by a pronoun, or a more generic name. The reader is already familiar with the topic and reading is fluid. In this example, ’trapping’ (of the molecule) is the constant topic.

“Trapping is unimportant at high temperatures where there is plenty of energy to escape. But trapping leads to very slow dynamics at low temperature. In the case of liquids, this trapping causes the glass transition — a dramatic slowing of motion on cooling.”¹

With the topic repeated often near the beginning of each sentence, reading is very fluid.