Templates: Models of Style and Usage for WritersBeginning with the simple two-word sentence and working up to multi-clause possibilities, Templates shows students how to manipulate syntactic patterns for maximum rhetorical effect. Although it teaches grammar, it does not do so with the goal of correcting mistakes. Rather, it encourages writers to make full use of the complexity and flexibility of English sentence structure. Combining an emphasis on the writing process with both an awareness of audience and a raised consciousness about English grammar, Templates takes a unique approach to sentence-level writing and revision. Exercises throughout the book help students to move from simpler sentence structures to more complex multi-clause constructions. Key features: - Emphasizes the rhetorical possibilities of sentence structure - Grammatical analysis is demonstrated in terms of syntactic “templates” - Shows how the writer can play to audience awareness of these templates - Promotes sentence-level editing as the fine-tuning stage of the writing process - Usage issues are presented as choices based on level of formality, rather than as prescriptive rules - Includes a glossary of grammatical terms |
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Contents
Introduction | |
What Is a Template? | |
The Intransitive Template | |
The Linking Template | |
The Transitive Template I Direct Objects | |
The Transitive Template II Indirect | |
The Transitive Template III Objective | |
Compound Templates | |
Dependent Clause Templates I Adverb | |
Dependent Clause Templates II Adjective | |
Dependent Clause Templates III Noun | |
Glossary | |
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Common terms and phrases
________________________________________________________________ Adjective Clause ________________________________________________________________ Noun Clause ___________________________________________________________________ Clause Template active voice Adjective Clause Template adverb clause anticipation Basic Templates beginning bucket combination compound sentence conjunctive adverb constituent coordinating conjunction create direct object direct/indirect object template English sentences English syntax example follows and modifies fragment function gerund grammarians grammatical hill independent clause indirect intransitive template introduces Jack and Jill Jack considers jogging Jack spilled Jack walked Jack works hard Jack’s Jill trudged Jill’s Let’s linking verb template look Matters of Style modifies the subject Noun Clause Template noun equivalent noun or pronoun noun phrase occur optional slots passive voice past participle pattern plural possibilities preferred choice preferred usage prepositional phrase previous chapter punctuation readers relative pronoun semicolon singular sounds spilled the water structure stylistic subject and verb subject slot subject/verb subjective complement suffix syntactic transitive verb template usage issues verb phrase verb slot writer
Bibliographic information
| Title | Templates: Models of Style and Usage for Writers |
| Author | Stephen Lewis |
| Publisher | Broadview Press, 2014 |
| ISBN | 1460402359, 9781460402351 |
| Length | 180 pages |
| Subjects | › Language Arts & Disciplines / Composition & Creative Writing |
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