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Essential Writing Skills for Clarity and Coherence

This guide provides key writing techniques to enhance clarity and coherence in your narratives. It covers topics like maintaining a consistent tense, using compound adjectives correctly, avoiding run-on sentences, and improving fluency by condensing ideas. Learn how to differentiate between singular and plural forms, apply possessives accurately, and utilize semicolons to connect related sentences. With practical examples and tips, this resource is designed to help writers of all levels communicate effectively and engage their readers more successfully.

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Essential Writing Skills for Clarity and Coherence

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  1. CORE: GENRE APPRENTICE

  2. Word jails • Keep them out of context and annotations • easy to spot and so easy to fix! • Additions: first-grade, simplistic words: good, bad, happy, sad… • Tense • Pick one and stick with it • Many of you switch between past and present • Compound adjectives • When 2 words describe a person, place, or thing, hyphenate • Ex: Billy acquired a part-time job after school. • Ex: He tackled a man-eating alligator. • Ex: The red-eyed figure hissed a command.

  3. Run-ons • You can’t jam two or more sentences together into one • Separating two sentences by only a comma doesn’t fix the problem; it’s still a run on • PROBLEM: The night fell silently on the town, all • was still. • FIXED: The night fell silently on the town, and all • was still. • FIXED: All was still as the night fell silently on the • town. • FIXED: The night fell silently on the town as all • was still. • FIXED: The night fell silently on the town; all was • still.

  4. . • Condense! Combine! Vary! • Avoid saying the same thing twice • When you have two or three very short sentences in a row, try combining them into one to assist in fluency (flow) AND demonstrate your sophistication as a writer • Very syntax • See your notes or my teacher page under “writing” for alternate ways to start a sentence • Woman vs. women • Woman=1 female • Women=more than 1 female

  5. Plural vs. Possessive • After much practice, the athletes competed. • More than 1 athlete has competed. • After the athlete’s practice session, she was ready to compete. • 1 athlete has had a practice session. • After the athletes’ practice session, they were ready to compete. • More than 1 athlete has had a practice session.

  6. Semi-colons A semi-colon joins two independent but related SENTENCES PROBLEM: The night fell silently on the town; all sentence  quiet and still and threatening. not a sentence  FIXED:The night fell silently on the town; all was quiet and still and threatening.

  7. PRACTICE:Is each of the following correct or incorrect? The buds on the trees are about to blossom ; just a few more days, maybe a week. Slowly she dropped to the floor, resting her head in her hands ; no longer was she able to think. With every step closer to the door, her anxiety grew ; a beating heart and a bead of sweat plaguing her. Coming into focus, the picture revealed a grisly scene ; overturned furniture, blood-streaked walls, a cryptic message smeared on the refrigerator.

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