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The Sense of Structure: Writing from the Reader's Perspective de George D. Gopen

The Sense of Structure: Writing from the Reader's Perspective

Autor George D. Gopen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2003
Emphasizing reader expectations, this composition text provides an insightful guide to writing clearly and effectively. Reflecting on the author's decades of experience as an international writing consultant, writer, and instructor, The Sense of Structure teaches writing from the perspective of readers. This text demonstrates that readers have relatively fixed expectations of where certain words or grammatical constructions will appear in a unit of discourse. By bringing these intuitive reading processes to conscious thought, this text provides students with tools for understanding how readers interact with the structure of writing, from punctuation marks to sentences to paragraphs, and how meaning and purpose are communicated through structure. "
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780205296323
ISBN-10: 0205296327
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 150 x 224 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Pearson
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Descriere

Emphasizing “reader expectations,” this composition text provides an insightful guide to writing clearly and effectively.
Reflecting on the author's decades of experience as an international writing consultant, writer, and instructor, The Sense of Structure teaches writing from the perspective of readers. This text demonstrates that readers have relatively fixed expectations of where certain words or grammatical constructions will appear in a unit of discourse. By bringing these intuitive reading processes to conscious thought, this text provides students with tools for understanding how readers interact with the structure of writing, from punctuation marks to sentences to paragraphs, and how meaning and purpose are communicated through structure.

Cuprins



1. The Complexity of the English Sentence.
Tools, Not Rules.The Anatomy of a Sentence's Meaning, from the Reader's Perspective.

2. A Structural Anatomy of the English Sentence.
The Fallacy of Good and Bad Sentences.Reader Expectations at the Sentence Level.

3. Weights and Balances; Motions and Connections.
Artificial EMPHASIS, and When to Use It.Fred and His Dog: Competition for Emphasis.Moments of Truth: The Shape of the Sentence, Revisited.The Backwards Link of the Topic Position.The Various Functions of the Stress Position.The Flow of Thought from Sentence to Sentence.

4. “Whose Paragraph Is It, Anyway?”: The Shapes of the English Paragraph.
Procrustean Problems in Teaching the Paragraph.The Issue.Point.Pointless Paragraphs.Connections Between Paragraphs.Summarizing Paragraph Structures.A Note on Whole Documents.

5. “Write the Way You Speak” and Other Bad Pieces of Advice.
Bad Advice; and Why Not to Take It.The Toll Booth Syndrome.

6. Mark My Words: A Reader's Perspective on the World of Punctuation.
From Fetters to Facilitators: Punctuation as Power.The Semi-colon: A Hope for an Afterlife.A Brief Glimpse at the History of Punctuation.The Colon: Play It Again, Sam.Dashes -- (Parentheses), Commas, and [Brackets]: Pardon the Interruption.The Hyphen: In the Midst of Things.The Question Mark: Is Anything Uncertain Here?The Exclamation Point and Other Forms of Artificial Emphasis: Look at Me!The Use of Punctuation with Quotation Marks: Consistency, Logic, and Illogical Consistency.The Apostrophe: Whose Who's Are What's What.The Ellipsis: Now You Don't.The Period: A Comfort Zone.The Comma: It Gives One Pause.

Caracteristici

  • Chapter 1, “Understanding the Complexity of the English Sentence from the Reader's Perspective,” prepares students to think like readers do by introducing them to the complexity of the reading/interpreting process.
  • Chapter 2, “A Structural Anatomy of the English Sentence,” demonstrates that in an English sentence, WHERE a word appears may actually be more important than the word itself, giving students conscious control of the reading processes they know intuitively as readers.
  • Chapter 4, “‘Whose Paragraph Is It, Anyway?’” The Shapes of the English Paragraph,” deals with reader expectations at the paragraph level and teaches students to write paragraphs as writers in the real world write them.
  • Chapter 5, “Write the Way You Speak and Other Bad Pieces of Advice,” explains and discards more than a dozen threadbare “rules,” such as “Avoid the Passive,” “Write the Way You Speak,” and “Every Paragraph Should Start with a Topic Sentence.”
  • Chapter 6, “Mark My Words: A Reader's Perspective on the World of Punctuation,” offers an entirely new approach to this subject with a history of punctuation that explains the origin of each mark.
  • Chapter 3, “Weights and Balances; Motions and Connections,” helps students understand how controlling the structure of their sentences enables them to control how readers perceive the flow of thought in their writing.