A challenge that any writer can run into is establishing fluent forward movement among sentences. To ensure understanding for readers, writers need to clearly connect related thoughts and properly signal when one is shifting to another.<\/p>\n
Consider this text:<\/p>\n
Janice is going to Nashville. She enjoys traveling. She loves rock music and concerts. Her favorite band, Heavy Medal, is performing. Janice\u2019s family is having a reunion. The airline is lowering fares. Janice has two weeks of unused vacation from work. She wants to go to Austin, Texas, too.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n These sentences convey information, but they also make us work to decipher their association. Their lack of cohesion lowers the likelihood we\u2019ll retain them as we should.<\/p>\n As writers, we can help them adhere with proper arrangement and transitions. Sentence arrangement involves placing statements in a logical sequence. Transitional markers indicate the relationships among ideas.<\/p>\n For a better sequence of sentences, we focus on what the order of thoughts could or should be.<\/p>\n Scattered sequence:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Brianna wrote a report. She bought more paper. She gave it to her teacher. She proofed it for typos. For marking transitions, one way to connect different sentences is by repeating a word or an idea from a previous sentence.<\/p>\n Less connected:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Questionable claims can spread through social media. An embezzler sits on the village board. Another way to achieve smoother links is by including a transitional word or phrase. These markers may also be referred to as conjuncts or conjunctive adverbs. The following table includes some of these common expressions.<\/p>\n Less smooth:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0I am a carpenter. I am a surfer. I will coach my son\u2019s softball team. With the preceding principles in mind, let\u2019s touch up our text about Janice by working on our sentence sequence and transitions:<\/p>\n Janice is going to Nashville\u00a0because<\/u>\u00a0her family is having a reunion\u00a0there<\/u>. She enjoys traveling;\u00a0plus<\/u>, she has two weeks of unused vacation from work. Janice\u00a0also<\/u>\u00a0loves rock music and concerts,\u00a0and<\/u> her favorite band, Heavy Medal, is performing in\u00a0Nashville<\/u>\u00a0the week of the\u00a0reunion<\/u>.\u00a0Even<\/u> more<\/u>, the airline is lowering fares. Janice wants to go to Austin, Texas,\u00a0later<\/u>\u00a0too<\/u>.<\/em><\/p>\n By focusing on the order of our thoughts and the stitches that sew them, we elevate our impact as writers who communicate with precision, clarity and eloquence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A challenge that any writer can run into is establishing fluent forward movement among sentences. To ensure understanding for readers, writers need to clearly connect related thoughts and properly signal when one is shifting to another. Consider this text: Janice is going to Nashville. She enjoys traveling. She loves rock music and concerts. Her favorite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjectives-adverbs","category-definitions","category-effective-writing"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLogical sequence:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Brianna bought more paper. She wrote a report. She proofed it for typos. She gave it to her teacher.<\/p>\n
\nBetter with repeated idea:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Questionable\u00a0claims<\/u>\u00a0can spread through social media. One such\u00a0claim<\/u>\u00a0is that an embezzler sits on the village board.<\/p>\n\n\n
\n Addition<\/strong><\/td>\n moreover, even more, further, furthermore, besides, and, and then, likewise, also, plus, too, as well, again, in addition, equally important, next<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Comparison<\/strong><\/td>\n similarly, likewise, in like manner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Contrast<\/strong><\/td>\n but, yet, however, still, nevertheless, on the other hand, on the contrary, after all, at the same time, otherwise<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Place<\/strong><\/td>\n here, there, near, beyond, beside, opposite to, adjacent to<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Purpose<\/strong><\/td>\n to this end, for this purpose, with this object, because<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Result<\/strong><\/td>\n hence, therefore, accordingly, consequently, thus, as a result, then<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Summary<\/strong><\/td>\n in brief, in sum, in short, in other words, that is, to be sure, for example, for instance, in fact, indeed, in any event<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Time<\/strong><\/td>\n meanwhile, at length, immediately, soon, in the meantime, afterward, later<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\nMore smooth with transitional words and phrase:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0I am a carpenter. I am\u00a0also<\/u>\u00a0a surfer. I will\u00a0soon<\/u>\u00a0coach my son\u2019s softball team\u00a0as well<\/u>.<\/p>\n