Craft

Contents:

• Cheatsheet
  • Semantic patterns
  • Sentence qualities
  • Rhetorical effect of style
  • Rhythmic variety
  • Edit
  • Information package
• Comment
  • Comment on an argument in the same sentence
• Common writing errors
  • Misplaced modifier
• Communicate a thought per sentence
  • Action sentence
  • Elaboration
  • Comparison
  • Result
  • Contrast
  • Evaluation
  • Temporal
  • Speculative
  • Suggestion
  • Question
  • Reasoning
  • Declarative
• Conjunctions
• Cumulative sentence
  • Addition techniques
• Discourse flow
  • Discourse Markers
• Editing
  • Overview
  • Tone
  • Subject - verb
  • Specifics
  • Specific verb instead of adverb
  • Replace general purpose verbs
• Emphasis techniques
  • Position in the sentence
  • Adding adjectives
  • Separate a part to it’s own phrase
  • Repetition
  • Focusing modifiers
  • Use passive voice
  • Use prepositional passive + stranding
  • Start with a concept word or phrase:
  • Topic prominence
  • Information package
  • Dynamic verb
  • Start with verb
  • Coordination
  • Share or relate to the subject
• Sentence grammatical options
  • Action oriented noun phrases
  • Flow
  • Finite or non-finite clause?
  • Common comparative constructions
  • List, one item more important
• Information package
  • Goal
  • The Principle of End-Focus (The End)
  • The “English Conflict”
  • Object be the Theme/Subject
  • Force end-focus of something specific
  • The Shift: Topic at the end
  • End-weight and balance
  • The “Hammer Blow”: Delayed Focus
  • CGEL formal
  • Package by it’s focus effect
  • Canonical counterpart
  • Construction
• Layers
  • Overview
  • Subject: Syntactic, grammar
  • Theme: Information package
  • Topic: semantic
  • Key questions
  • Default alignment
  • Separation of layers
  • The reader point of view
  • Impact of Theme-Subject-Topic alignment
• Main point
• Paragraph balance
  • Mix of Themes
  • The “Weight” Distribution
  • The functional mix, “3-Layer” alignment
  • Avoiding the staccato effect
  • Rhythmic variety, long and short sentences
• Paragraph flow
  • Overall topic
  • Thematic” flow (The baton)
  • Linear progression: the “Step” pattern
  • The “Fan” pattern: constant theme
  • Avoid gaps
  • Tools
  • Semantic Linkage in paragraph to the next sentence
• Paragraph options
  • Sentences
  • Squeeze info
  • Gestalt
  • Coherence
  • Focused, tidy
  • Rearrangement Patterns
  • Paragraph patterns
  • Opinionated, forceful
• Qualities
  • Tools
  • Elegance
  • Crisp
  • Tight
• Relationship with the reader
  • Styles and the reader
  • Pathic utterance
• Rhetoric figurative language
• Rhetoric sentence structure
• Semantic sentence patterns
  • Facts >> conclusion
  • Fact >> reason
  • Fact >> result
  • Action >> result
  • Then vs. Now
  • Generalized with concession
  • Extreme concession
  • Concessive: Although x, y
  • Induction, Deduction
  • Chronological
  • Establishing pre condition
  • Directions
  • Reversibility
  • Effect
  • Prediction - long term
  • Prediction - casual
  • List of items where one is more important
  • List of actions (modal verb + multiple verb phrases, should go, eat…)
  • Mini reference
• Sentence mechanics
• Sentence openings
  • Start with subordinate conjunction (while…)
  • Background
  • Link to Context
  • Place (even metaphorically)
  • Negation
  • Directions
  • Second part
• Sentences
• Short or long sentences?
  • General
  • Long sentences
• Style/Attitude
  • Writing Attitudes / Styles
  • Analytical
  • Argumentative
  • Comparative
  • Critical
  • Deliberative
  • Descriptive
  • Discursive
  • Expository
  • Interpretive
  • Narrative
  • Persuasive
  • Reflective
  • Speculative
  • Suspensive
  • Rhetorical effect
• Subordinate
• Topic prominence
  • What the clause is about
  • Empathic focus with fronting and stranding
  • Periodic Sentence
  • Unknown topic prominence: Introducers
• Value
• Words selection