Coherence To help your audience of readers to easily follow your thoughts, your writing must be coherent. The techniques below show you how coherence is established. |
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Order of ideas\support Paragraphs within the essay must have an order that a reader can follow. It is also helpful to order sentences within a paragraph to make it easy for the reader. Here are some (but not all-create you own) standard ways to order an essay\paragraph. Space order - used for physical descriptions Time order - used for telling a story, an anecdote, an event etc. Order of Importance - used for illustration, cause/effect, classification/ argumentation etc. General to specific - used for explanations, information, almost anything Obvious to hidden - used to highlight your point, to alert reader to unknown etc |
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Pronoun
References Pronouns should be used correctly. Antecedents (words they replace) should be clear. They should agree in: number, gender, case. |
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Parallel
Structure Sentences must be constructed with accurate: verbs, modifiers, clauses, word selection and structure that is constant and easy to follow. |