Writing Analytically, 6th Edition - Rosenwasser, David & Stephen, Jill.original_ [6]
Guidelines
Assignment
CHAPTER 18 Revising for Style: The Rhetoric of the Sentence
Operating Assumptions
The Primary Comma Rule: Identifying the Main Clause
How to Recognize the Four Basic Sentence Types & What They Do
The Simple Sentence: One Statement at a Time
The Compound Sentence: Two Items of Equal Weight
The Complex Sentence: Ranking the Value of Ideas or Information
The Compound-Complex Sentence: Using Syntax to Convey Complexity
Try This 18.1: Compose the Four Sentence Types
Try This 18.2: Identify the Four Sentence Types in Sentences You Like
Using Coordination and Subordination to Emphasize Meanings
Using Coordination to Balance This with That
Emphasis Rests at the End of Coordinate Clauses
Try This 18.3: Rearrange Coordinate Clauses for Emphasis
Using Subordination to Adjust Emphasis
How the End Affects Emphasis When Using Subordinate Clauses
Try This 18.4: Experiment with Coordination, Subordination, and the Order of Clauses
Parallel Structure: Put Parallel Information into Parallel Form
Try This 18.5: Find Examples of Parallelism
Try This 18.6: Correct Errors in Parallelism
Two Powerful Forms of Parallelism: Antithesis and Chiasmus
Periodic and Cumulative Sentences: Two Effective Sentence Shapes
The Periodic Sentence: Delay Closure to Achieve Emphasis
The Cumulative Sentence: Start Fast to Build Momentum
Try This 18.7: Write Periodic and Cumulative Sentences
Cut Extra Words to Achieve Greater Directness
Beginning With “It Is” or “There Is”: Advantages and Disadvantages
Static versus Active Verbs: “To Be” Or “Not To Be”
Try This 18.8: Finding the Active Verb
Active and Passive Voice: Emphasizing the Doer or the Action
Try This 18.9: Converting Passive to Active
Sentence Style in Science Writing: A Biochemistry Professor Speaks
Voices From Across the Curriculum
About Prescriptive Style Manuals: A Word of Warning
Experiment!
Guidelines
Assignments
CHAPTER 19 Revising for Correctness: Grammar and Punctuation
The Concept of Basic Writing Errors (BWEs)
Why Grammar Errors Make Some People So Angry
Usage: How Language Customs Change
Usage: Some Examples of Right & Wrong versus Etiquette
When Usage Begins to Change Grammar
Usage as Cultural Marker
Try This 19.1: Discover the Rationale for Usage Choices
What Punctuation Marks Say: A Quick-Hit Guide
Nine Basic Writing Errors and How to Fix Them
Some Advice on Proofreading
BWE 1: Sentence Fragments
Noun Clause (No Predicate) as a Fragment
Verbal as a Fragment
Subordinate Clause as a Fragment
Test Yourself 19.1: Fragments
Using Dashes and Colons to Correct Fragments
BWE 2: Comma Splices and Fused (or Run-On) Sentences
Comma Splice
Comma Splice
Cures for the Perpetual Comma Splicer
Fused Sentence
Comma Splices with Conjunctive Adverbs
Test Yourself 19.2: Comma Splices
BWE 3: Errors in Subject–Verb Agreement
Agreement Problem: plural subject, singular verb
Agreement Problem: singular subject, plural verb
Agreement Problem: “each” must take singular verb
Test Yourself 19.3: Subject-Verb Agreement
A Note on Dialects and Standard Written English
BWE 4: Shifts in Sentence Structure (Faulty Predication)
Faulty Predication
Test Yourself 19.4: Faulty Predication
BWE 5: Errors in Pronoun Reference
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Test Yourself 19.5: Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Ambiguous Reference
Test Yourself 19.6: Ambiguous Reference
Broad Reference
Test Yourself 19.7: Broad Reference
A Note on Sexism and Pronoun Usage
BWE 6: Misplaced Modifiers and Dangling Participles
Misplaced Modifier: modifier appears to modify wrong word
Misplaced Modifier: modifier appears to modify wrong word
Dangling Participle: subject that participle modifies does not appear in the sentence
Test Yourself 19.8: Modification Errors
BWE 7: Errors in Using Possessive Apostrophes
Apostrophe Error
Test Yourself 19.9: Possessive Apostrophes