Jasmine Cheatham

When writing you want to make sure that the end of your sentence is clear, strong, shows cohesion and coherence. Readers want organization, by organizing your sentences you as a writer can help manage long and complex phrases and clauses as well as new information, particularly unfamiliar technical terms. I learned that when you are writing sentences they should be simple and direct because you can’t assume your reader knows what you are referring to, you don’t want to keep them guessing. I think this is important to do when you are correcting your draft of a paper. I like in class how Anna said that all babies “papers” are born ugly. Personally I like that idea because I can let all of my ideas flow and get my points across without having to be super cautious of if I’m doing the paper right. Words and structure of a sentence can effect the voice the reader is going to have. During class when we were doing nominalizations I learned what a lot of teachers were referring to by how to structure a sentence. Prior to this class teacher’s would make comments on my paper about changing my sentence structure and never gave an example of what they were talking about. I would typically just change the sentence around and was done. I wasn’t aware of the structure she was refereeing to. In this lesson Williams talks about stress. Stress of a sentence can make your paper strong. How you end your sentences as mentioned earlier can determine how the reader reads your paper and their judgments about it. As well as having a strong ending as a writer you need to have a strong introduction of a sentence. Emphasizing will help create a clearer, organized, and direct sentence. I need to work on emphasizing the right words in my sentences.