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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... Apostrophe : Whose Who's Are What's What The Complex Life of an Airborne Comma From a distance , you might expect that the apostrophe -- a minimal mark that without causing confusion can be printed straight , slanted , or curved ...
... apostrophe that indicates contraction was responsible for creating the apostrophe that indicates possession . In Greek and Latin , pos- session was signaled by a word ending that indicated the possessive case -- the genitive . By the ...
... apostrophe will suffice . Classes ' gifts will do fine ; we need not struggle with * Classes's gifts . For plurals not ending in s , we add ' s : children's books . We just cannot do without that genitive s . The role of the apostrophe ...
Contents
Chapter | 4 |
The Anatomy of a Sentences Meaning | 8 |
of the English Sentence | 14 |
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