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DO NOW:. Revising for Variety and Revising to Reduce Wordiness. DO NOW: Copy this quote:.

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  1. DO NOW: Revising for Variety and Revising to Reduce Wordiness

  2. DO NOW:Copy this quote: • “To understand why anyone—including ourselves—writes badly, we have to be able to look at a sentence and understand how it works, how the ideas have been distributed through its different parts, and then decide how to write better.” (Joseph M. Williams, 1933- American writer and teacher)

  3. Examine your revision process(es): • Do you revise for clarity, variety, or both?

  4. An example: • Writer’s Handbook pg. 478

  5. Style tips: • Too many sentences beginning with a subject followed by a verb may make writing dull • Coordinating conjunctions are frequently used to begin sentences in reading (informal), best not to use in formal, or academic, situations

  6. Closing Questions: • Why do readers need to pay attention to a writer’s choice of words? • How do readers construct meaning from text? • How do rules of language affect communication? • How does the choice of words affect the message? • How does understanding a text’s structure help me better understand its meaning? • How is the style of a text relative to its function?

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