It is also harder for your readers to follow your though as the text grows in size. Readers' difficulties will increase the more unfamiliar is the material they are asked to grapple with a substantial problem for thesis authors who are supposed to be undertaking original research. Almost by definition, much of a new thesis may be unfamiliar even to experienced professional readers. The epigraph from Oakeshott, above, stresses that even the apparently simplest text (like a cookery book) rests on a shared set of conventions between an author and her readers about how that kind of book should be written. Knowing your discipline's conventions inside out will help you do authoring more reliably. Yet as the Dimnet epigraph also points out, different readers may still code the same text in different ways. Trying to think consistently about how readers will understand your text, writing with readers in mind, is a fundamental aspect of becoming a good author. It is not something that is external to the process of producing and understanding your arguments, but rather an integral stage in helping you be most effective in organizing and expressing your thought.