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... kind of delayed beginning is the simple inductive paragraph in which both the subject and thesis are unstated until the last sentence . For example : After a bitter and frustrating war , a nervous peace settled over the American ...
... kind of delayed beginning is the simple inductive paragraph in which both the subject and thesis are unstated until the last sentence . For example : After a bitter and frustrating war , a nervous peace settled over the American ...
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... kind of ending you write . A basic kind of ending is the one that , in effect , summarizes the entire composition , or at least makes a quick review , ties up in a neat bundle the es- sence of the composition . Another kind of basic ...
... kind of ending you write . A basic kind of ending is the one that , in effect , summarizes the entire composition , or at least makes a quick review , ties up in a neat bundle the es- sence of the composition . Another kind of basic ...
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Winston Weathers, Otis Winchester. tween a genuinely controlled elaboration and a false kind of word growth which actually defeats the purpose of serious composition . This false kind of word growth is something of a hop - skip - and ...
Winston Weathers, Otis Winchester. tween a genuinely controlled elaboration and a false kind of word growth which actually defeats the purpose of serious composition . This false kind of word growth is something of a hop - skip - and ...
Contents
Classification and Order | 15 |
Beginning and Ending | 29 |
Expansion | 45 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
A. E. Housman achieve adjectives alliteration American Arnold Brown artist basic beginning brown clichés colloquial colon comma complex sentence compound sentence consider Copyright course create dark dash devices diction E. B. White E. M. Forster effect elaborate emphasize essay expansion following paragraph formal G. K. Chesterton give graph Greek H. M. Tomlinson human hunt my meadow idea Iliad important independent clause interruption kind literary living look mark mean metaphors method mind momentum moving nature Negro never noun novel periodic sentences phrases possible prose punctuation question reader Red-tailed hawks repetition rhetorical profile rhythm rhythmic semicolon sense short simple sentence sometimes sounds statement style stylistic subject and thesis subject-thesis Summary Checklist tences tenor texture things thought tion topic sentence transitional trees verb vertical walking words writing