Yes, with one linebreak, I’d put it at (4). With 2 linebreaks, I’d put it at 4+5. With 3 breaks, 4/5/6. (Giving the full standard format: introduction/background, method, results, conclusion.) If I were annotating that, I would go with 3 breaks.
I wouldn’t want to do a 4th break, and break up 1-3 at all, unless (3) was unusually long and complex and dug into the specialist techniques more than usual so there really was a sort of ‘meaningless super universal background of the sort of since-the-dawn-of-time-man-has-yearned-to-x’ vs ‘ok real talk time, you do X/Y/Z but they all suck for A/B/C reasons; got it? now here’s what you actually need to do:’ genuine background split making it hard to distinguish where the waffle ends and the meat begins.
Yeah that seems reasonable! (Personally I’d prefer a single break between sentence 3 and 4)
Yes, with one linebreak, I’d put it at (4). With 2 linebreaks, I’d put it at 4+5. With 3 breaks, 4/5/6. (Giving the full standard format: introduction/background, method, results, conclusion.) If I were annotating that, I would go with 3 breaks.
I wouldn’t want to do a 4th break, and break up 1-3 at all, unless (3) was unusually long and complex and dug into the specialist techniques more than usual so there really was a sort of ‘meaningless super universal background of the sort of since-the-dawn-of-time-man-has-yearned-to-x’ vs ‘ok real talk time, you do X/Y/Z but they all suck for A/B/C reasons; got it? now here’s what you actually need to do:’ genuine background split making it hard to distinguish where the waffle ends and the meat begins.