2 Clarity The First Two Principles of Clear Writing ,Readers are likely to feel that they are reading prose that is clear and direct when (1) the subjects of the sentences name the cast of characters, and (2) the verbs that go with those subjects name the crucial actions those characters are part of. If you find that those characters are not subjects and their actions are not verbs, revise so t...
Remember our five major principles: Characters as subjects: Use main characters in your "story" as the subjects of most of your sentences. Actions as verbs: Express the main actions performed by (or on) these characters as verbs, not nouns. Old before new: Begin sentences with familiar information, and end them with information readers cannot predict. Short before long: Begin with a short, easi...(1回应)
As we read a sentence, we have to integrate two levels of its structure: one is its predictable grammatical sequence: Subject + verb + Complement; the other level is its story, a level of meaning whose parts have no fixed order: Characters + Actions. To a significant degree, we judge a style to be clear or unclear according to how consistently a writer aligns those two levels. We us...
Readers are likely to feel that they are reading prose that is clear and direct when (1) the subjects of the sentences name the cast of characters, and (2) the verbs that go with those subjects name the crucial actions those characters are part of 第一个原则
For Principle 4 What's the point? Readers will expect to find in each paragraph and section,and also in the whole,a sentence that will be the logical ,argumentative, expository center,a sentence that you could send as the telegram capturing your central idea. P98 By POINT we mean the specific sentence on the page that the writer would send as a telegram if asked"what's your point" ...
There are some principles ,the book illustrated,which can make paragraphs coherent apply to prose of any length. 1 A cohesive paragraph has consistent topic strings. 2 A cohesive paragraph has another set of strings running throng it that we will call thematic strings. 3 A cohesive paragraph introduces new topic and thematic strings in a predicatable location:at the end of the sentence(s) that ...
So the first step toward a syle that is clear,direct, and coherent lies in how you manage the first few words of every sentence.If at the beginning of your sentences,you consistently organize your subject/topics around a few central characters or concepts and then move quickly to close that subject with a precise verb expressing a crucial action,then by default you will habe to put important ne...
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