The Sense of Structure: Writing from the Reader's PerspectiveEmphasizing "reader expectations," this composition text provides an insightful guide to writing clearly and effectively. Reflecting on the author's decades of experience as an international writing consultant, writer, and instructor, The Sense of Structure teaches writing from the perspective of readers. This text demonstrates that readers have relatively fixed expectations of where certain words or grammatical constructions will appear in a unit of discourse. By bringing these intuitive reading processes to conscious thought, this text provides students with tools for understanding how readers interact with the structure of writing, from punctuation marks to sentences to paragraphs, and how meaning and purpose are communicated through structure. |
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... sentence ? Will it be even more conclusive , more comforting , more final ? Here it is : 11g . That , of course , is a troublesome " if . " Oh dear . Just when we were ... last sentence of 120 Chapter 4 " Whose Paragraph Is It , Anyway ? "
... sentence , at the beginning or end of a paragraph , and toward the begin- ning and / or end of a whole document . I repeat the ... sentences last sentence No 2 sentences Summarizing Paragraph Structures 143 Summarizing Paragraph Structures.
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Contents
The Complexity of the English Sentence | 3 |
Chapter | 5 |
of the English Sentence | 14 |
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