Craft

Contents:

• Comment
  • Comment on an argument in the same sentence
• Common writing errors
  • Misplaced modifier
• Conjunctions
• Discourse flow
  • Discourse Markers
• Final edits
  • Tone
• Emphasis techniques
  • Position in sentence
  • Adding adjectives
  • Separate part to it’s own phrase
  • Repetition
  • Focusing adverb
  • Passive, for the agent: by whom?
  • Passive, for the object
  • Patient, experiencer, beneficiary,
  • Prepositional passive
  • Start with a concept word or phrase:
  • Topic prominence
  • Start with verb
  • Cleft Sentence
  • 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
  • Important common information packages
  • Notes
  • Canonical counterpart
  • Construction
• Main point
  • Sentence
  • Phrase
• Paragraphs
  • Sentences
  • Squeeze info
  • Gestalt
  • Flow & Coherence
  • Focused, tidy
  • Semantic Linkage in paragraph: Next sentence
  • Rearrangement Patterns
  • Paragraph patterns
  • Opinionated, forceful
• Semantic sentence patterns
  • Generalization concession
  • Extreme concession
  • Facts conclusion
  • Action result
  • Fact reason
  • Then vs. Now
  • Fact result
  • Concessive: Although x, y
  • Induction, Deduction
  • Time based
  • Establishing pre condition
  • Directions
  • Effect
  • List of items where one is more important
  • List of actions (modal verb + multiple verb phrases, should go, eat…)
• Sentence openings
  • Start with subordinate conjunction (while…)
  • Background
  • Link to Context
  • Place (even metaphorically)
  • Negation
  • Directions
  • Second part
• Topic prominence
  • What the clause is about
  • Emphatic Focus (Rhetorical Punch)
• Value
• Words selection