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Enhancing Your Writing: Coherence, Visual Analysis, and Effective Linking Words

This guide provides essential tips on improving your writing through effective coherence and sequencing. Learn how to utilize linking words to connect your ideas seamlessly and enhance your essays. Explore strategies for analyzing visuals, focusing on key elements such as objects, expressions, surroundings, dialogue, color, and reader response. These techniques will elevate your analytical skills and ensure your arguments are clear and persuasive.

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Enhancing Your Writing: Coherence, Visual Analysis, and Effective Linking Words

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  1. improving your writinganalysing visuals Language analysis P JenkinsUnit 3 English

  2. These are crucial to coherence and sequencing so ensure you use them in your essays. Linking Words • in addition • for this reason • as a result • however • finally • moreover • in contrast • thus • meanwhile • at the same time • admittedly • yet • conversely • consequently • hence • in spite of • likewise • similarly • on the contrary • therefore • on the other hand • despite (this) • first/first of all • nevertheless • although

  3. Top tip: avoid ‘…says that…’ • accepts that • advances the argument • advocates that • argues that • asserts that • attempts to show that • believes that • condemns the idea that • considers that • contends that • counters that • decries the suggestions that • discloses that • emphasis that • explains that • expresses the view that • highlights that • hints at/that • is critical that/sceptical that • maintains that • observes that • outlines the idea that • points out that • proposes that • puts forward the view that • reasons that • refutes the idea that • rejects the idea of • urges the audience to

  4. Analysing Images When you are analysing the visual – this includes structural and symbolic elements such as bold font, logos, colour, dollar signs, written layout, etc. – there is a six point checklist to tick off: • Object/Subject– identify and describe the object, subject, their relative sizes and the reason for this • Expressions – look at the object’s facial expressions and body language

  5. …analysing images ctd • Surroundings– take notice of the positioning of things in the foreground, background, periphery/boundary, etc. • Dialogue – the size, font, significant contrasts and impact of dialogue or lettering should be noted. Also, mention the tone or type of humour being used in the caption. • Colour – the contrast in colour, the significance and meaning of this (shadows, black/white emphasis…) • Response – the intended effect on readers. How are they meant to respond? This should only be approximately one sentence long.

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