Reading and Writing in the Applied Fields 

Tips & Tricks

Rhetorical Choices - When it comes to writing in applied fields it’s crucial to 
understand your audience. Most likely when you’re writing in the APA style you’ll be 
writing to superiors or an audience that wishes to be informed of whatever topic you’ll 
be writing about. So spend a lot of time thinking about your audience and what their 
needs are. About how you could present a persuasive and coherent statement for 
them. Identify a purpose and remain on track with that purpose, it helps to reread 
your essay and make sure you end o the same as you started. Spend quality time 
hitting your main points as a thesis in the abstract 
Structural Elements - The title should be around two lines, try to be original but 
professional about it. Keep the short titles as a hook for the flush title just above it. 
Headlines and titles are important, so try to understand your topic well enough to 
place the appropriate information in each headline and title. When you’re arguing a 
point, try to make it implicit rather than extremely obvious at the beginning, weave 
together your facts and your narratives across the main body, by placing graphs and 
other statistics within your essay. ALWAYS list your references at the bottom. 
Research - For research, don’t stick with the basic articles, find interviews, surveys, 
graphs, and other kinds of data that weave together your thesis. It’s all about the 
quality of the research, so having more sources doesn’t indicate having better sources. 
Even inside the body paragraphs, always cite them. Look for more informational 
sources for qualitative research for accuracy. 
Language Elements - You have to be cautious about your language, considering the 
group you might write to, you can’t flat out yell at them. Using hedging or vague 
language can actually strengthen your writing when used at the moments when you 
come to the bulk of your writing, choose proper wording. 
Typography - Find graphs to place in, specifically colorful ones to stick out from the 
monotony of plain old writing. Make your headers and headlines in the appropriate 
font, but enlarge them or change the font of them if permitted to. It can be visual 
easing to see. 
Reference Elements - As I said in research, include as much intext citation as possible 
when using your sources, then reference them at the end of the page. This can show 
consideration to those you researched and proper edicate on your end as well. So 
make sure you have good resources, think of it as a collaboration of ideas with others.