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It's always either redundant or indicative of a problem elsewhere. Either section 1 has a title/thesis that makes it obvious what it's about and so the restatem
by acomar 10y ago
It's always either redundant or indicative of a problem elsewhere. Either section 1 has a title/thesis that makes it obvious what it's about and so the restatement is unnecessary, or you need to say it because you haven't already made it obvious. Instead of saying "This is the aim of section 1", just make the point of the section apparent.
This is a class of stylistic issue that's common in professional writing by those new to it and usually stems from a lack of confidence in the topic or in one's self.
- tpetricek 10y agoGiving "overview of the rest of the paper" that points out what will be happening in future sections is quite common in academic literature - there are better ways to phrase it (and many people writing academic papers, myself included, try to word it so that it does not sound that silly), but this wording (even if grammatically quite clumsy) sounds pretty standard to me - I would not overthink it as a "lack of confidence".