Jasmine Cheatham

Lesson 5

10/22/14

When writing you should always make sure that your sentences are connecting. This lesson taught me about the way your sentences should be. Your sentences should all flow together as well as having cohesion. I learned the differences between cohesion and coherence, I wasn’t clear on either concepts.  When writing you should present the reader with information that they are already familiar with and then introduce your new information.  As discussed in class, you never want to have your readers clueless. By giving them old information first they can connect your new information and apply it. Sentence structure is important when writing because it keeps your thoughts organized as well as making it easier for your reader to follow what you are saying. Referring back to cohesion, you have to make sure that your sentences fit together and that you’re not just jumping around from topic to topic. By incorporating characters into your writing that will give the reader some previous information, it is important to have them in the front of your sentences.  Overall this lesson taught me about a few concepts and how they work. I know that I will need to work on my writing to make sure that I continue to connect my writing and making sure that it flows. I sometimes bounce my ideas around in my paper because they just come to me as I write and it makes my paper structure unorganized.