Thinking critically about sentence variety

Reading with an eye for sentence variety

Read something by an author you admire. Analyze two paragraphs for sentence length, opening, and type. Compare the sentence variety in these paragraphs with that in one of your paragraphs. What similarities or differences do you recognize, and what conclusions can you draw about sentence variety?

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Read something by an author you admire. Analyze two paragraphs for sentence length, opening, and type. Compare the sentence variety in these...

Thinking about your own sentence variety

Choose a piece of writing you have recently completed, and analyze two or three pages for sentence variety. Note sentence length, opening, and type (grammatical, functional, and rhetorical). Choose a passage you think can be improved for variety, and make those revisions.

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Choose a piece of writing you have recently completed, and analyze two or three pages for sentence variety. Note sentence length, opening, and...