In addition to using a repeating word to effect sentence coherence, a writer can also use synonyms, pronouns, and repeating ideas. Example: The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which connects Brooklyn and Staten Island, was […]
More on Coherence
In this post, a published paragraph’s coherence will be analyzed. The paragraph is from page 13 of The Twilight Warriors by Robert Gandt, an excellent book about the fight for Okinawa during the […]
Coherence
Imagine that the bulleted pair of sentences below begins a paragraph: Two adjacent sentences are coherent when there’s a “logical connection” between them. I just ate a banana. What do they have in […]
Four Steps in Revising Your Writing
The first step in revising something you wrote is to reread it — carefully. (It helps to read it aloud: that brings a second sense into the process.) Does every sentence make […]
