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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... connections between these various statements and the forward- moving quality of the progression as a whole . Topic Changing , therefore , is a technique that highlights cohesion : It makes any two neighboring sen- tences stick together ...
... connections , so that everything you need to cover will eventually be covered . It is not nearly enough to produce many individual sentences that sound good and that suf- fer from no grammatical or syntactical errors ; you must also ...
... Connections Between Paragraphs In some ways , connections between paragraphs resemble connections between sentences . In both cases , the reader is departing from a unit of dis- course that has raised numerous possibilities for further ...
Contents
The Complexity of the English Sentence | 3 |
Chapter | 5 |
of the English Sentence | 14 |
Copyright | |
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