Coordination
In academic texts your sentences will often be rather long and complex as a result of coordinated clauses and phrases, sometimes quite long themselves, using and, or and but. When you coordinate expressions, you should make sure that it is clear what exactly is being coordinated, in other words what belongs with what. This can really help to make a sentence easy to process and often guarantees good rhythm. Here is an example:
On first reading, one might well expect the final and to signal a coordination with the development of transport. However, the use of the verb create shows that the coordination is between be of great value for the development of transport and create employment. This is best brought out by repeating would, which also improves the rhythm of the sentence:
Here is another example:
This sentence is by no means wrong, but there is quite a distance between impossible to understand and predict. Predict clearly 'belongs to' impossible to, so you can make the sentence easier to process by repeating to:
A basic tip when coordinating phrases is to repeat the whole or part of the element earlier in the sentence that the coordinated phrase belongs to. And the longer the distance to that element, the more of it you should consider repeating.
Finally, have a look at this case:
Here, the writer has not taken into account that the verb take only collocates with photos and not with video. In other words, the coordinated phrase is too restricted. This can easily be resolved: