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0006 Understand the Influence of Purpose and Audience
 
0007 Unity, Focus, and Development
 
0008 Apply Principles of Organization
Recognize Effective Organization
Transitional Words or Phrases
 
0009 Sentence and Paragraph Construction
 
0010 Apply Correct Usage in Standard English
 
0011 Apply Knowledge of Mechanical Conventions
 
Practice Writing Tests
 
0012 Analyzing and Revising Sentences
 
0013 Produce a Written Summary
 
0014 Prepare an Organized, Developed Composition
 

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0008 Apply Principles of Organization in Writing

Identify Appropriate Transitional Words or Phrases (e.g., "however," "as a result," "moreover") to Help Readers Understand the Organization of Ideas

Tips for Transitioning

Since clarity and effectiveness of transitions depends greatly on how well a writing is organized, you may want to evaluate the writing's organization before you work on transitions. In the margins of your test booklet, summarize in a word or two what each paragraph is about or how it fits into your analysis as a whole. This exercise should help you to see the order and connection between ideas more clearly.

If after doing this exercise you find that you still have difficulty linking ideas together in a coherent fashion, the problem may not be with transitions but with organization. Perhaps something crucial is missing between one paragraph and the next - most likely an idea or a piece of evidence or both. Maybe the paragraph is misplaced, and logically belongs elsewhere.

 

 


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