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International Writers’ Workshop

Join Dr. Erica Cirillo-McCarthy for Week 5 of the International Writers' Workshop focused on structuring sentences, paragraphs, and essays for enhanced clarity and coherence. This session covers methods for ensuring logical flow between sentences and paragraphs, the reverse outline technique, and the importance of adhering to disciplinary conventions. Participants will engage in discussions, exercises, and handouts to reinforce these concepts. Bring your questions from last week's topic and elevate your writing skills.

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International Writers’ Workshop

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  1. International Writers’ Workshop Week 5 – Organization & Logical Flow: the Sentence, the Paragraph, and the Essay Dr. Erica Cirillo-McCarthy Assistant Director of Graduate and ADEP Writing

  2. Today’s Presentation: • Logical flow between sentences • Handout/exercises • Logical flow between paragraphs • Handout/exercises • Logical flow throughout the paper • Reverse outline technique – handout • Subsections • Disciplinary Conventions • But first, any questions on last week’s topic?

  3. Logical flow between sentences • Explicit Linking (old-new): • Each sentence (with the exception of a few first sentences) should refer to the previous sentence. • Consider the references to previous sentences as “old” information. • Each new sentence then begins with the “old” information from the previous sentence and then moves toward “new” information.

  4. What does that look like? • Handout Exercise • Discussion

  5. Logical flow between paragraphs • Last week we talked about transitional devices • Use these devices as you transition between paragraphs • The give the reader visual cues as to how this next paragraph relates to the previous • However, there are other ways to clue your reader into the relationship between paragraphs – see handout pg. 2

  6. Logical flow throughout the paper • At times our work becomes so complex and unwieldy that we must take a step back and holistically evaluate the logical flow • One way to do this is through a reverse outline • Go through each paragraph and summarize the main idea • Write them all in an outline format so that you can visually see the flow of your ideas

  7. Reverse Outline Handout

  8. Subsections • Consider grouping your ideas into subsections • Create a title for the subsection • Breaking up a longer paper or thesis chapters into subsections help the reader • The reader gets the visual cue that the following section will be unified • The reader will be able to focus more on the ideas within a section rather than getting lost within a long section

  9. Disciplinary conventions of organization • Some disciplines have specific sections and subsection headers that you must use if you write in the discipline • For example, many psychology papers will have an introduction section, a methodology section, a literature review section, and an analysis section • Business papers similarly have delineated sections depending on the purpose of the paper • Look at journal articles in your field to identify the conventions in your discipline

  10. Article example – looking for conventions • Discussions: what disciplinary conventions have you noticed thus far?

  11. Questions? • Thank you!!

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