Chapter 1: business in the information age


-3 Writing a first draft with powerful sentences (1 of 8)



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3-3 Writing a first draft with powerful sentences (1 of 8)


-To overcome writers block
+Organize your ideas and work from an outline
+Create a quiet environment
+Choose a suitable style for yourself
-Freewriting is a wiritng technique that involves getting your thoughts done quickly and refining them in later version
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Adding interest and variety with four sentences types
-To avoid monotony and to add spark to your writing, use a variety of sentence types: simple, compound, complex and compound-complex
-A simple sentence contains one complete thought (an independent clause) with a subject and predicate verb
- “Our company lacked a social media presence”

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-A compound sentence contains two complete but related thoughts
-They may be joined by a conjunction such as “and”, “but or orsemicolon or a conjunctive adverb such as however, consequently and therefore

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-A complex sentence contains an independent clause (a complete thought) and a dependent clause (a thought that cannot stand by itself)
-Dependent clauses are often introduced by words such as although, since, because, when, if
-When dependent clauses precede independent clauses, they always are followed by a comma

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-Avoiding three common sentence faults
-As you craft your sentences, beware of three common traps: fragments, run-on (fused) sentences and comma-splice sentences
+A fragment is usually a broken-off part of a complex sentence
+Fragments often can be identified by the words that introduce them – words such as although, as, because, even, expect, for example, if, instead of, since, such as, that, which and when

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-A run-on sentence, also called a fused sentence, is a sentence error that results when two independent clauses are incorrectly joined (fused) together without a conjunction or a semicolon
-A comma splice is a sentence error that results when a writer joins two independent clauses with a comma

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-Form sentences that average 20 words

Group activity debrief


1. Evaluate your para


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