Joseph Williams And Joseph Bizup's Lessons In Clarity And Grace

In this chapter, Lunsford details the planning and drafting process for a writer to organize their ideas with either a formal outline or a rough plan. Lunsford reminds writers to be flexible during the drafting process and not to think twice about changing elements of the essay at this point in the process. Lunsford goes on to explain the qualities academic paragraphs must have these include unity, development and coherence. To obtain unity within a paragraph all sentences should relate to the topic sentence of the paragraph. When developing a paragraph it is important to switch between general and specific ideas in the paragraph, while supporting those ideas with details, evidence and examples as required. Ensuring a paragraph is coherent is crucial when developing an academic paragraph. Because readers need to be able to follow a writers ideas easily, Lunsford gives her readers a method to follow to achieve this goal. This method includes using the general to specific ideas, repetition, parallel structures, and using transition words. The author notes that this method should also be used to link paragraphs

For example, paragraph twelve’s first sentence says, “about three to six gallons of a dyed and perfumed solution of formaldehyde, glycerin, borax, phenol, alcohol, and water is soon circulating through Mr. Jones, whose mouth has been sewed together…” The sentence recalls the last step of exchanging Mr. Jones’s blood for formaldehyde, but also hints at the topic of the current paragraph, the mouth. Another example is a transitional phrase, provided in paragraph thirteen. The author says, “the next step…” and goes on to explain the step of intestine

Writing varies from a text message to a novel. Writers often have a difficult task in creating a piece of work that truly identifies the meaning of good writing. Every good writer usually starts with the basics such as genre, audience, rhetorical situation, and reflection of the piece. Throughout this semester, we have gone through all of these key terms in great detail with each new assignment that has come our way. In doing this, not only as students but also as writers, we have come to create our own theory of writing. Every writer has a different theory of writing though most are very similar. Now, at this point in the semester after doing countless journals, in-class exercises, and final assignments, I think I have figured out my own

On a more serious level, coherence is undermined while being one of the writer's and reader's most basic need. "The problem is not that the Five-Paragraph formula produces incoherence but rather that it limits students to a superficial, predictable level or coherence," (232) states Foley. This allows for students to throw any three liberally related ideas together for the body of the essays. Once students fabricate a thesis statement that elucidates for their three ideas, the students feel they have mastered structure. Foley states, "To be asked merely to enumerate three aspects of any topic relieves the student of the need to probe relationships... it robs them of any motivation to do so," (232). Juxtaposition is not

Today's world is filled with both great tragedy and abundant joy. In a densely populated metropolis like New York City, on a quick walk down a street you encounter homeless people walking among the most prosperous. Unfortunately, nine times out of ten the prosperous person will trudge straight past the one in need without a second thought. A serious problem arises when this happens continually. The problem worsens when you enter a different neighborhood and the well-to-do are far from sight. Many neighborhoods are inhabited only by the most hopeless of poverty - ridden people while others downtown or across the park do not care, or are glad to be separated from them. Such is the problem in New York City today and in Mott Haven in Jonathan

This type semantic cohesion adds balance and rhythm to the sentences, but also reminds the reader of the importance of worth (even in insignificant objects). Likewise, this pattern repeats in the next paragraph where the author found three volumes of Shakespeare. These books experienced “successive moves from town to town in the Dakotas, and from Dakota to Seattle” until the books reached the town dump. Stegner summarized this finding by saying that “those three thrown away was a little like finding [his] own name on a gravestone”. This pattern that the author used when enlisting artifacts exemplifies how diction plays a bigger role in semantic cohesion.

In the process of writing, regardless of the form it takes, thesis or narrative for example, the purpose of the piece has several lenses that shape how the reader perceives the material. Of the less important lenses that shape the piece, mood, word choice, and rhetoric are only a few. These elements of the work, while minimal in a relative sense, accomplish the same as other, more important components, they influence how the reader perceives the material, how it is understood. If one is to effectively convey the message of the piece, one must first look at how the any reader perceives any text. This idea of how the reader perceives is a culmination of all the devices employed by the author. The idea is for the author to craft an aggregate

written so clearly and practically which helps the reader to dwell in the writing and understand it

Organize writing to support a central idea through unity, coherence, and logical development appropriate to

American religion is freedom. Every religion has their equal right to worship and develop. The government cannot be biased in any religion in particular. The Mormon is about sharing and helping as a family. In the book “In Search Of Grace” by Kristin Hahn, she followed the sisters to each household to talk with them about joining Mormon Church. The Christian Science is about believing in self-healing, and all the illnesses are from our imagination, or they are illusions of life. Unitarians believes that God is one as in the book she mentioned “they together embrace individual liberty, free will, reason, inquiry, independent communication with God,…” (chapter 8, page 111). In chapter ten of the book, Hahn talks about how Jewish people blend the belief into daily activities such as

The College Composition and Communication journal published the article titled “Identifying and Teaching Rhetorical Plans for Arrangement” by JoAnne and Leonard Podis which provides methods that students can utilize to arrange writing pieces. The authors explain that the structure of the writing can influence the readers’ retention and understanding of the information and the arrangement of the text can improve the text readability. The article then lists the different plans of arrangements which are “obvious before remarkable”, “presentation before refutation”, “explanation before complication”, solvable before unsolvable”, “agreement before disagreement”, “literal before symbolic”,

topic to use it as a guide to developing the body and supporting paragraph. I also need to not shift and concentrate on the topic sentences that is based on the main points.

In lesson five we had to choose between three tactical revisions that created clear and concise sentences and six syntactic devices that emphasize the right words. I chose the tactical revision to shift peripheral ideas to the left. This tactic focus is to particularly avoid ending with metadiscourse. There’s a strong chance you have used metadiscourse in your writings without realizing. In simple terms, metadiscourse are comments that mostly occur during your introduction and they contribute to your ideas and announce your topic. However. we often mistakenly used them at the end of sentences, when they are better suited to be at the beginning. For an example, let’s use these easy to understand terms beginning, middle and ending; if

One sign of an excellent writer is the use of transitional phrases (e.g. therefore, consequently, furthermore). Transitional words and phrases contribute to the cohesiveness of a text and allow the sentences to flow smoothly. Without transitional phrases, a text will often seem disorganized and will most likely be difficult to understand. When these special words are used, they provide organization within a text and lead to greater understanding and enjoyment on the part of the reader.

A writer can accomplish composing a “good” piece of writing by making sure he has logical reasoning behind their statements, by making it noticeable when they transition into explaining another point, and when by not letting their personal feelings be put ahead of their logical reasons, and by making the reader question them. These are not only important for the author but it is also important for the reader. If a author does not have a logical reasoning behind his statements than the reader can not take it as a credible source and they will most likely not believe it. Transitions are a huge part of good writing also because if a reader can not tell when your last point ends and the next one starts