+ point out connections to other areas, including other
   In practice, your audience will be somewhat mixed. Up to a point, it
   dissertation needs a point: it should tell a story. Writing the
   2: Preliminaries," keep it relatively concise -- the point is to get
   either with or without a formal definition in your thesis. The point
          list with only 2 or 3 rather long bullet points, but that's
          Move inessential points to footnotes. If they're too long for
   Make sure your readers are never perplexed about the point of the
       caption may point the reader back to details in the main text
       will grasp a point more quickly and completely, and remember it
       that you can keep revisiting to make a series of points.