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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... space program . The space program received a major setback on January 28 , 1986 , when the space shuttle Challenger exploded . The explosion of the Challenger was more than simply the tragic death of seven brave Americans , it ...
... space program or that we will hear why the 1960s was such an impor- tant time . ( The former information occupies the Topic position in ( 2a ) ; the latter occupies the Stress position . ) Here is the second sentence : 2b . Numerous ...
... space flight routine and cheap . The " winged reusable craft " refers backward to " the space shuttle . " Thus , for the paragraph as a whole , it took only one sentence to get on the table the issue that would be discussed . We could ...
Contents
The Complexity of the English Sentence | 3 |
Chapter | 5 |
of the English Sentence | 14 |
Copyright | |
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