The Sense of Structure Writing from the Reader’s Perspective 1st Edition by George Gopen 0205296327 9780205296323
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ISBN 10: 0205296327
ISBN 13: 9780205296323
Author: George Gopen
Reflecting on the author’s decades of experience as an international writing consultant, writer, and instructor, The Sense of Structure teaches writing from the perspective of readers. This text demonstrates that readers have relatively fixed expectations of where certain words or grammatical constructions will appear in a unit of discourse. By bringing these intuitive reading processes to conscious thought, this text provides students with tools for understanding how readers interact with the structure of writing, from punctuation marks to sentences to paragraphs, and how meaning and purpose are communicated through structure.
The Sense of Structure Writing from the Reader’s Perspective 1st Table of contents:
1. The Complexity of the English Sentence
Tools, Not Rules
The Anatomy of a Sentence’s Meaning, from the Reader’s Perspective
2. A Structural Anatomy of the English Sentence
The Fallacy of Good and Bad Sentences
Reader Expectations at the Sentence Level
3. Weights and Balances; Motions and Connections
Artificial EMPHASIS, and When to Use It
Fred and His Dog: Competition for Emphasis
Moments of Truth: The Shape of the Sentence, Revisited
The Backwards Link of the Topic Position
The Various Functions of the Stress Position
The Flow of Thought from Sentence to Sentence
4. “Whose Paragraph Is It, Anyway?”: The Shapes of the English Paragraph
Procrustean Problems in Teaching the Paragraph
The Issue
Point
Pointless Paragraphs
Connections Between Paragraphs
Summarizing Paragraph Structures
A Note on Whole Documents
5. “Write the Way You Speak” and Other Bad Pieces of Advice
Bad Advice; and Why Not to Take It
The Toll Booth Syndrome
6. Mark My Words: A Reader’s Perspective on the World of Punctuation
From Fetters to Facilitators: Punctuation as Power
The Semi-colon: A Hope for an Afterlife
A Brief Glimpse at the History of Punctuation
The Colon: Play It Again, Sam
Dashes — (Parentheses), Commas, and [Brackets]: Pardon the Interruption
The Hyphen: In the Midst of Things
The Question Mark: Is Anything Uncertain Here?
The Exclamation Point and Other Forms of Artificial Emphasis: Look at Me!
The Use of Punctuation with Quotation Marks: Consistency, Logic, and Illogical Consistency
The Apostrophe: Whose Who’s Are What’s What
The Ellipsis: Now You Don’t
The Period: A Comfort Zone
The Comma: It Gives One Pause
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