A composing book, 2nd edition cosmos by carl sagan paragraph one 1. William strong is the author of sentence combining 4. Option 3 conjunctive adverbs there are many choices. William strongs most popular book is sentence combining.
In the process,students learn the importance of sentence variety in improving syntax. You will have to add, delete, change, and rearrange words. Here are a few of the many ways to combine sentences. Aims to help writing students strengthen their writing skills thr. A construction in which a noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both having the same syntactic relation to the other elements in the sentence. Simple sentence combining activity keys to literacy. An alternative to traditional forms of grammar instruction, sentence combining gives students practice in manipulating a variety of basic sentence structures. By learning this skill, students enhance their writing style. Simply put, sentence combining involves putting short, choppy sentences together to make more interesting,readable ones. Despite appearances, the goal of sentence combining is not to produce longer sentences but rather to develop more effective sentences and to help students become more versatile writers. The court is equally divided on the question of whether the decision of the court of appeals should be affirmed or reversed. A composing book random house, 1973, in its complexity and purpose. Eric ed274985 creative approaches to sentence combining. Additionally, all sentence combining sc exercises have been revised and updated, with material added to address the needs and interests of a diverse and often nontraditional audience.
Complex sentences sentence combining four types of. Tiered sentence combining tillamook bay community college. Combine the two sentences into one sentence using for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so. A listing of types and examples of sentencecombining appears below in table 1. These worksheets will help you practice sentence combining. This highly regarded text helps developmental writing students strengthen their writing skills and understand some of the stylistic choices available to them in written english.
The third edition of sentence combining just arrived. Combining sentences allows writers to avoid unnecessary repetition, provide emphasis, and improve sentence variety. Surely by eighth grade i thought, my students must have mastered the ability to create interesting sentences. The hints in parentheses tell you how to start the subordinate clause. Connecting and combining in sentence and paragraph writing by helen mills. You can combine short sentences by using phrases as well as clauses. Besides authoring many articles and teaching resources on sentence combining and writing, he is the consulting author in composition for writers choice glencoemcgrawhill, 2001 and. William strong has 47 books on goodreads with 230 ratings. I will share the material with my colleagues at machabeng international college of lesotho. Students will benefit, and they will enjoy themselves. I cant wait to get to class monday to start my students on these exercises. Instead of longer sentences, the reported value of sentence combining was in making sentences and whole discourse better through employing a variety of syntactic forms with the end goal being clarity of thought instead of complexity. Besides authoring many articles and teaching resources on sentence combining and writing. William strong wrote another book about writing development, coaching writing, that i purchased at a writing workshop.
Pay close attention to the new sentences created so you can start making longer, smoother sentences. Strong, william summarizing the wealth of recent research on sentence combining as an effective method of teaching students to tighten and vary their written sentences, this booklet explains how and why sentence combining works. Sentence structures combine each set of simple sentences below to produce the kind of sentence speci. If you have written a series of simple sentences, try alternate methods of combining them to vary the pace of the paragraph look at the following example. Karolides adapts sentencecombining and christensen rhetoric for classroom use, with special attention to bonnie jean christensens the christensen method. If you continually use short sentences in your writing, your paragraphs will sound very choppy. Sentence combining classroom strategies reading rockets. Improving sentence writing ability through sentence combining. Sentence combining skill is something that will develop over several short practice sessions and should be considered as one component of an overall writing program. Books by william strong author of sentence combining. Sentence combining presents teachers with an alternative to traditional grammar instruction and holds greater promise for students to produce quality writing. William strong william strong directs the utah writing project at utah state university, where he teaches courses in writing, english education, and contentarea literacy. Combine parts from column one and column two to create sentences. The book was known on the campus in those days as the little book, with the stress on the word little.
New to this edition are two endoftext appendices on sentence combining,the writing. Pdf improving sentence writing ability through sentence. A textbook required for the course was a slim volume called the elements of style, whose author was the professor himself. Bibliography of sentence combining and the teaching of writing 216 index. Tiered sentence combining, atlas, 2014 2 purposes and acknowledgements tiered sentence combining is the result of contributions from minnesota student achievement in reading mn star participants over several years.
Here, three sections of open combining units 1, 2, and 3 are organized in order of increasing difficulty. In the new book strong works with combining but also with problems of. Summarizing the wealth of recent research on sentence combining as an effective method of teaching students to tighten and vary their written sentences, this booklet explains how and why sentence combining works. Creative approaches to sentence combining by william strong. Complex sentences sentence combining free language stuff. Sentence combining workbook uses sentence combining techniques to help students develop confidence in their writing at the sentence level and practice communicating their ideas. Sentence combining a composing book william strong. It was actually created in the 1960s but not used widely despite strong evidence supporting its effectiveness saddler, 2005, 2008, 2010. Improving sentences via sentence combining instruction. Combining sentences joining sentences by coordination independent clause clause. Improving student writing without formal grammar instruction 1973, and william strongs. William strongs first and second edition of sentence combining. The book i recommend all the time related to sentence combining and other related instructional practices is bruce sadlers. Combine each pair of sentences into a single sentence.
Building skills through reading and writing by deborah dean sentence combining occurs in two different ways. We cannot connect these independent clauses with a comma. Sentence combining, part two texas state university. Text and workbook 1979, frank ohares sentence combining. Sentence combining and generative rhetoric by william l. The experimental group really liked the sentencecombining problems because of the intellectual challenges they presented. Students are able to explore a variety of ways to say something in writing and learn that there is not a single right way to express their point.
Bibliography of sentence combining and the teaching of. A composing book are no longer in print, but the 3 rd edition 1995 still is mcgrawhill. The sentence construction difficulties of less skilled writers are discussed and the effect sentence combining may have on those skills is. This results in a compound sentence that can improve the. The teaching of english as a second language has undergone radical changes in recent years, and nowhere have these changes been more evident than our and livtrsltles. Review coordinating conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs, to see the relationships you can show when combining sentences. Combining sentences encourages a writer to take two or more short, choppy sentences and combine them into one effective sentence.
The discussion of sentence combining as a development technique excited my teaching, but i dont have time or energy to prepare sentences for use with the technique. Improving sentences via sentence combining instruction bruce saddler when i first began teaching writing in middle school my temptation was to believe that any sentence level writing instruction was a waste of time. William strong directs the utah writing project at utah state university, where he teaches courses in writing, english education, and contentarea literacy. Back to basics and beyond cites research done by frank ohare. Combine the following short sentences by turning the second sentence into a subordinate clause and attaching it to the first. I like grilled pork, but i dont like spicy rice cake. Besides authoring many articles and teaching resources on sentence combining and writing, he is the consulting author in composition for writers choice glencoemcgrawhill, 2001 and series consultant for english matters. Improving sentence writing ability through sentence combining practice, article pdf available january 2007 with 7,956 reads how we measure reads. Sentence combining exercises excerpted from william strongs sentence combining. X we can connect these sentences with a coordinator and the proper punctuation. Sentence combining a composing book william strong 2.
Coordination once you have mastered the basics of correct usage in written english, you will want to express yourself in increasingly complex ways. William strong, random house, 1981 william strongs new book, sentence combining and paragraph building, is humane, carefully made, and highly useful. On a separate sheet of paper, rewrite the following sentences into one smooth sentence. Sentence combining and embedding free language stuff. Sentence combining and paragraph building by william strong. A composing book 1973 this uniquely practical handbook of flowcharts and succinct clinical information is a timesaving aid to the quick and accurate assessment of 200 common signs and symptoms.
It is intended to improve integrated readingwriting skills such as. Teaching sentence combining to native speakers is primarily a process of making. This approach has been shown to be effective in helping students write sentences that are. Part two sentences can also be combined by using modifying words, prepositions and prepositional phrases, infinitives or infinitive phrases, participial phrases, gerunds, appositives, and absolute phrases.
William strong, random house, 1981 william strong s new book, sentence combining and paragraph building, is humane, carefully made, and highly useful. Complex sentences sentence combining four types of sentences. Las vegas high school 201011 writing workshop combining sentences. Sentence combining exercises excerpted from william strong s sentence combining.
Instruction in sentence combining teaches students to construct more complex and sophisticated sentences by combining two or more simple sentences. The first half of the booklet provides background information on sentence. Coordination is a method of combining independent clauses by using sentence connectors. Justia us law case law wisconsin case law wisconsin supreme court decisions 2000 state v. Thanks so much for such excellent teaching material. Sentence combining tillamook bay community college. A sentence combining workshop by william strong 1995, paperback at the best. The two most important activities in sentence combining are a the initial creation of a. Simply put,sentence combining involves putting short,choppy sentences together to make more interesting,readable ones.
Sentence combining a composing book william strong on. Sentence combining california state university, northridge. William strong receive free daily summaries of new opinions from the wisconsin supreme court. With openended sentence work, students are given a set of short, simple sentences often called kernel sentences which they are asked to combine in any way they can. Combine by using a compound sentence or complex sentence.
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