Latest posts tagged with #ReaderExpectationApproach on Bluesky
"Topic sentence"? A paragraph's first sentence cannot always inform readers what to expect from the paragraph as a whole.
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The last sentence of a paragraph can on occasion be used effectively to say something witty, ironic, or even contradictory.
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Each sentence in a paragraph will be understood not by itself, but only in the context made for it by the sentence before it.
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For readers, a paragraph is not experienced as a series of separate sentences. Each sentence must flow into the next.
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Paragraphs have significant beginnings, middles, and ends, but no single, set structure that must be constantly reproduced.
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The 5-sentence paragraph taught in school — topic sentence, body, conclusion — rarely exists in professional prose. Forget it.
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Whenever an "and" connects two main clauses, it fails to tell a reader how to connect those clauses. Best avoid this structure.
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The information in a mere phrase is considered by readers to be less important than the information in a dependent clause.
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The information in a dependent clause is considered by the readers to be less important than the information in the main clause.
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Readers think a main clause — a clause that can stand by itself in a sentence — will contain the writer's main thought.
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A 130-word sentence can ring clear as a bell; and a 13-word sentence can be hopelessly opaque. The numbers don't matter.
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The number of words in a sentence, taken by itself, is no indication of the sentence's quality.
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Two double-dashes that surround an interruptive comment in a sentence instruct the reader to - "Raise the Voice" - within.
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Parentheses that surround an interruptive comment in a sentence instruct the reader to ("lower the voice") within.
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The semicolon as death: What comes before stands alone as a unit, as does what follows; but together the two make a whole.
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Since a properly used semicolon produces a Stress position mid-sentence, it should be preceded by a full main clause.
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If a list is light-weight enough to be read swiftly, it should be introduced by a double-dash and divided by commas.
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If a list is heavy-weight enough that each item requires emphasis, it should be introduced by a colon and divided by semi-colons.
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A colon promises: The preceding clause will either be restated in different terms or be supported by a list of examples. #readerexpectationapproach #EnglishGrammar #betterwriting #promise
By 2035, you will be able to split any infinitive you like. All the people who were trained o care will no longer be in power.
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Like many grammar rules, the split infinitive rule stemmed from our veneration of Latin , where the infinitive is unsplittable.
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Feel free to boldly split your infinitive when writing for people that don't care about the split infinitive. Otherwise, don't.
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Feel confident in locating short, easily read information between a subject and its verb if you want a reader not to emphasize it.
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Anything that intervenes between a subject and its verb is read by a reader as being less important — merely interruptive.
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A subject and its verb lose touch with one another when something intended for emphasis intervenes between them.
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Why "hide" your important stuff in places where the reader does not know to look for important stuff? (Most people hide it).
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In a multi-clause sentence, readers try to give extra weight to the clause at the sentence's end.
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A comma can never create a Stress position: It does not announce itself as a moment of full syntactic closure. You always have to keep reading beyond a comma to find out what kind of comma function it is trying to fulfill. #readerexpectationapproach #proserhythm #legalwriting #ClarityInWriting
It may be natural for writers to front-load the important information in a sentence; but it is disastrous for readers.
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