Rws 5

• Being able to produce well-focused, clearly written, and fully developed paragraphs is a major accomplishment
• Our ideas can seem more or less interesting depending on how we present them at the sentence level: our choice of words, and the manner in which we arrange them, can have an enormous impact on the way readers receive our ideas
• Subordination


  Joins two sentences with related ideas by merging them into an independent clause and a dependent clause
• Coordination


  Allows a writer to give equal weight to the two ideas that are being combined
• Subordination


  Enables a writer to emphasize one idea over the other
• Subordinating conjunctions


  • although
  • while
  • though
  • whereas
  • even though
  • if
  • unless
  • until
  • as if
  • as
  • where
  • wherever
  • because
  • since
  • so that
  • in order to/that
  • after
  • before
  • while
  • once
  • when
• Denotation


  The literal meaning or definition of a word
• Connotation


  The emotional sense of a word
• Words have both denotations and connotations
• It is easy to let your sentences become cluttered with words that do not add value to what you are trying to say
• Writing concisely


  1. Eliminating repetitive ideas

  2. Removing repeated words

  3. Rewording to eliminate unneeded words
• Jargon


  Technical words and phrases common to a specific profession or discipline
• Slang


  Invented words and phrases specific to a certain group of people
• Colloquialisms


  Terms that are similar to slang but are typically understood by a wider audience
• Jargon, slang, and colloquialisms are usually avoided in more formal writing
• Slang almost never appears in academic writing, and colloquial terms are used only occasionally to deliberately vary the tone