Tham khảo tài liệu 'being structure sound 1', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | BEING STRUCTURALLY SOUND PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER 1. Rank the ideas of the paragraph you have chosen in order of their importance to you. 2. Now write a paragraph choosing whether to put the ideas in the order of increasing importance or decreasing importance. Skill Building until Next Time Look again at the passages you read in Lessons 1-5. What structures do you notice at work in those paragraphs As you read and write during the next few days be aware of the structure of each paragraph you come across. Try to identify the author s strategy try to use different strategies in your own writing. 86 Language and Style In most of the passages you have read so far the author s ideas and intentions have been very clear. But what happens when they re not What if the writer doesn t provide a topic sentence that clearly expresses the main idea Or what if the writer gives you a poem instead of a clear-cut memorandum How do you figure out what the author is trying to say The good news is that no matter how cryptic a piece of writing may seem the author always leaves clues to help you figure out what he or she means. These clues can be found in the writer s language and style the words used and the type of sentences in which he or she uses them. The next four lessons therefore focus on four different aspects of language and style Point of view Diction Style Tone You ll learn how authors use these elements to create meaning for their readers. Then you ll put it all together in Lesson 15 to see how language style structure and meaning work together. .
