- You are a vital part of the subject. - it is the sum of the actual words, sentences, paragraphs. - But this desire for joining is far from "romantic"—it is selfish. - Sometimes it's part of the job. - A journal—the word comes from French and originally meant "daily"—is a day-to-day record of what you see, hear, do, think, feel. - topic to specific aspects of the subject. - Neither way is "right"—or rather both are right. - Many of the ideas are speculative and hastily generalized. - The analytical questions have stressed what—the na- ture of the changes in attitude. - the free writing has stressed why—the reasons for the changes.. - Ideas do not come out of the blue. - in the margin. - Avoid awkward repetitions of the same word. - The very looseness of the term is a convenience. - Homer—the Homer of the Odys- sey—is one of those few.. - The first—in which the writer says, in effect, "I shall say such and so"—is more common in formal, scholarly writing. - The final phrase conveys the limitations, following the an- nouncement in the first clause of the sentence. - Indicating the Plan of the Essay. - clearly implies the three parts of the essay and their order. - Stressing the Importance of the Subject. - This is usually a more effective strategy than stressing the importance of the subject. - Another variety of the entertaining opening is the anecdote.. - The tremendous hook of Old Lord Chatham, under whose curves Empires came to birth, was succeeded by the bleak upward-pointing nose of William Pitt the younger—the rigid sym- bol of an indomitable hauteur. - Termination is always a function of the closing paragraph or sentence. - In the first place. - The mating process is the cornerstone of the tri-value system.. - Persona, as you can see, is a function of the total compo- sition. - He refrains from say- ing more than facts allow: notice the qualification "(in the specimen examined by me).". - The writer of the following paragraph, on the other hand, is angry:. - Within the scope of the present work it is possible. - If most of your paragraphs fall below 100 words—50 or 60, say—the chances are they need more development. - (3) It places the key word—"dead"—at the end, where it gets heavy stress and leads naturally into what will follow. - [8] (I am using these words in a liberal sense.) [9] The romantic revolt passes from Byron, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche to Mussolini and Hitler. - specification of the two forms. - a paragraph may employ both.) The first is to. - (This deluded individual owns woodpulp and ink, not books.) The second has a great many books—a few of them read through, most of them dipped into, but all of them as clean and shiny as the day they were bought. - (This person would probably like to make books his own, but is re- strained by a false respect for their physical appearance.) The third has a few books or many—every one of them dog-eared and di- lapidated, shaken and loosened by continual use, marked and scribbled in from front to back. - establish the logical framework of the argument:. - I have, for once, absolutely enforced the law in New York"—is improbable. - Some of the most abstract terms in the language are really faded metaphors. - An example of the use of "express". - cause the stone doors of the cave to move aside. - characteristic of the female, and no American male wants to be identified with anything in the least weak or feminine. - In the Mediterranean they had the most part of the trade of Europe for their quarry. - in an interrupting position, and changing completely the second half of the sentence.. - Specification, as in the paragraph by Hodding Carter (page 83), begins with a broad statement of the topic and then repeats it in. - The Catholic believed in the authority of the Church. - that religion was the operation of the Spirit on the mind and conscience. - The intolerance of the Protestant was in spite of his creed.. - His contribution to the destruction of the land is minimal.. - 122 THE EXPOSITORY PARAGRAPH casting of the net corresponds to observation. - Lincoln's argument simply assumes that slavery—the. - "snake"—is wrong and does not prove it. - Third, the language in the United States has been subjected to various influences that have not affected the language in Great Brit- ain—the environment, the languages of other early colonists and of later immigrants. - If the causes are serial—that is, if A is caused by B, B by C, and C by D—the organization is predetermined: A—B—C—D.. - sequences discussed in the remainder of the paragraph. - From London and from Liverpool we should hear the same story—the rise and fall of the tide had almost ceased. - and the maritime commerce of the world would be thrown into dire confusion. - Effect: Disappearance of the small fight club 4'. - This is one of the most common means of definition. - One of the earliest such maps dates from about 1400 B.C.. - She contrasts the Japanese conception of the quality with the American.. - for example, think of the titles des- ignating commissioned rank in the United States Army: cap- tain cannot be understood without reference to first lieutenant and major—the ranks on either side—and these in turn imply second lieutenant and lieutenant colonel and so on through the entire series of grades. - and in the case of the Greek and Roman classics seldom are any but later copies available.. - is composed of the particular groups "People,". - But the technique also works with abstractions—the organization of a club, for in- stance, or the economic classes of a complex society. - (The term watch has a double meaning: the two divisions of the crew, who alternated in working the ship, and the periods of the twenty-four-hour day when the groups were on duty.) The crew are divided into two divisions, as equally as may be, called the watches. - Try to keep to the w o r d i n g , b u t y o u may change the order of the clauses a n d a d d q u a l i f y i n g w o r d s. - In this case and joins two unequal constructions—the inde- pendent clause Harry was late and the dependent (adverbial) clause although he was sorry. - A prepositional phrase consists of a preposition (in, of, to, and so on) plus an object, plus (often though not invariably) mod- ifiers of the object:. - In the following example the gerundive phrase is the subject of the verb phrase can be:. - In this sentence the phrase is the direct object of the verb, a nounal function:. - It is related in idea but not in grammar to the rest of the sentence in which it occurs.. - From these types derive seven sentence styles: the seg- regating sentence, the freight-train sentence, the cumulative, parallel, balanced, subordinating, and—once again—the frag- ment. - In the following passage W. - It is a development of the compound sentence (see page 116) and has an old and honored history:. - The habits of the natives are disgusting. - Each detail is another instance of the same underlying insen- sitivity. - But usually ideas are not of the same order of importance. - A second deficiency of the freight-train sentence is that it lacks a clear shape. - they were unaware of the great forces operating beneath the Surface. - In the first of the following examples we can hear a sly amuse- ment. - Following the pattern of the sentence by Edmund Burke (page 126), construct parallel sentences on these topics (or any others that you may prefer):. - the subordinate constructions intrude between the parts of the main clause.. - Indeed, cumulative sentences (or rather, most of them) are a special variety of the loose style.. - A good example is the following passage, which begins a description of the Brooklyn home belonging to the writer's grandmother:. - Alfred's sentence is unified by what it describes—the facade of the house. - The chance of obscurity is reduced if the main clause can be placed in the middle of the subordinate elements.. - the following passage criticizing England's participation in the War of the Spanish Succession . - of the men. - (6) the conclusion of the peace. - of the peace. - Here the order of the sentence mirrors events.. - Do Not Waste the Main Elements of the Sentence. - They should convey the core of the thought. - a reader quickly grasps the nub of the idea.. - The subject of the first clause is "the first baseman". - of the second, "the catcher.". - CONCISE But a counterforce has been established within the weapons platoon—the antitank squad.. - are parallel because each is a verb of the same subject ("She").
Xem thử không khả dụng, vui lòng xem tại trang nguồn hoặc xem
Tóm tắt