Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Hurricane Blowing In
Using Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief as a model, writers will find a rhythm in their writing by varying sentence lengths while creating a scene to draw in their readers. The writer will paint a picture with words in order to describe...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Editing Techniques: Checking Your Sentence Structure
A ten-slide presentation demonstrating how to edit writing for sentence variety and how to identify and correct sentence errors such as fragments, run-ons, and comma splices.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Sentence Length and Style
Notes introducing how author's vary the length of sentences in order to express their voice and style. Examples from three literary texts are provided, "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Hills Like White Elephants" by...