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Alleviate potential misunderstanding No ambiguity
Does not want readers wandering off
Meaning---more meaning much better!
Form and style
Summarize
Define
Describe
Synthesize
Explanatory
Support Evaluate (pass judgment)
Choose a range of options
Synthesize
Justificatory
Right reasoning (research paper will include BOTH!)
Assembling Idea
NO SUSPENSE
The point you arrive at thorough a process of explanatory/just reasoning
Bifurcation (more than one ideas)
More words => more words responsible for
Wordiness
Proposition = promise to go over
See if you didn't actually do what the proposition said
Unfulfilled expectations
Problems
Proposition = CONCLUSION
Checking the proposition
Reasons ideas and sub reasons
Says
Explain problems
Review the proposed solutions then justify a course of action
Goals and secondary goals
Does
Organize around what the source can do for your expl/just
Organization should be goal-oriented!
They really shouldn't be there if they are not contributing to the
proposition
Not wanton organization
Don't organize paragraphs by source!!!!!
Sources
Organizing the paper
What needs to be explained first? (explanatory)
What requires the most proof? (justificatory)
Consider logical coherence
Cohere ideas
Idea and reasoning
Editing and Polishing Our WritingWednesday, April 20, 2011
5:08 PM
Class Notes Page 1
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What spend most time proving?
Which are at issue?
What ideas are shared with the audience?
First, next, finally (chronology)
At its most general (chronology)
If...then.. (causality)
Furthermore, additionally, also (continuity) Nevertheless, despite this, yet (discontinuity)
Discourse markers (coherence signs) UNDERSCORES your logic
ORIENT AT ALL LEVELS: SECTIONS, PARAGRAPHS, AND SENTENCE
Orienting the reader
Copy down your proposition
Copy down first sentence (or two) of each paragraph that follows. These should be the
REASONS.
Merge them into a paragraph
See if you can make them into a paragraph
Make the paragraph coherent, using discourse markers
Take the revised sentences and copy them back to your text
If you see a disconnection between the sentences in the new paragraph (it doesn't
flow logically), rethink reasoning. Make it read coherently!!!
***Editing from the inside out ***
Writing Concisely (Richard Lanham)
Class Notes Page 2
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