WRIT2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pilcrow
Week 12 Lecture
Paragraphs
Para:
Distinct passage or section of text
Defined visually or by format
Pilcrow
Form and function:
Intended block of text
Perfect paragraph – burger method
PEE – point, evidence, explain
No definitive formula
Unified paragraph
3 Cs – cohesion, continuity, coherence
Cohesion:
Sticking togetherness of the paragraph
Repetition, pronouns, synonyms, conjunctive adverbs
Connecting with pronouns – (personal, demonstrative, and relative)
Shell nouns (abstract nouns) – uses in a summarising way of something that has come
before
Connecting with cohesive ties (conjunctive adverbs)
A big period or a big full stop
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