Author of sentence combining, sentence combining and paragraph building, mastering basic vocabulary, practicing sentence options, coaching writing in content areas, write for insight, sentence combining. Court of appeals decision dated and filed notice july 27, 1999 this opinion is subject to further editing. The 4 english sentence types simple, compound, complex, compoundcomplex duration. William strong, random house, 1981 william strong s new book, sentence combining and paragraph building, is humane, carefully made, and highly useful. The effect of a metalinguistic approach to sentence combining on written. You may use any of the techniques you have learned, including coordination andor subordination. As you get ready to write a critical analysis, these sketches will wi cue your memories of the story. 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. To create collegelevel writing, students need to combine simple sentences frequently. If you havent already read them, see the sections on avoiding primer style and sentence variety. Around the same time, interest in sentence combining was heightened by other emerging sentencelevel pedagogies, especially the. A composing book william strong v utah state university mcgrawhill, inc. Because there are countless ways to build sentences, your goal is not to find the one correct combination but to consider different arrangements before you decide which one is the most effective.
Introducing sentence combining to students adapted from saddler, b. Teaching sentence combining to native speakers is primarily a process of making. Review of a decision of the court of appeals reported at. Louis san francisco auckland bogota caracas sbon london aanhrid mpvirn fltu mil m. Building skills through reading and writing by deborah dean sentence combining occurs in two different ways. Part of the writers task is to employ whatever music is available. Pdf improving sentence writing ability through sentence. Sentence combining and paragraph building, by william strong. 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. 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. Eric clearinghouse on reading and communication skills. 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. Sentence combining, part two texas state university.
In strongs book i read that sentence combining provides controlled practice in rewriting simple. Sentence combining november 1982 edition open library. It is intended to improve integrated readingwriting skills such as. Sentence combining and paragraph building by william strong. Bibliography of sentence combining and the teaching of writing 216 index.
Combining sentences helps us to showcase the relationships between ideas. Sentence combining a composing book william strong. William strong william strong directs the utah writing project at utah state university, where he teaches courses in writing, english education, and contentarea literacy. A composing book random house, 1973, in its complexity and purpose. Simple sentence combining activity keys to literacy. Strong presented such a compelling case for this method that i was convinced to give it a try. Compound sentences one way to combine two sentences is to make a compound sentence with the conjunctions and, or, but, yet, or so. Summarizing the wealth of recent research on sentence combining as an effective method of. Oct 22, 2018 sentence combining calls on you to experiment with different methods of putting words together.
You may change the wording, but be careful not to change the meaning. 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. 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. By learning this skill, students enhance their writing style. An example of such a sketch is the twocycle model of writing process that i used in the section a shaping up, shipping out model. Sentence combining calls on you to experiment with different methods of putting words together. Tiered sentence combining tillamook bay community college. Sentence structures combine each set of simple sentences below to produce the kind of sentence speci. Sentence combining workbook uses sentence combining techniques to help students develop confidence in their writing at the sentence level and practice communicating their ideas. 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.
William strong appeals from a judgment of conviction entered after a jury found him guilty of firstdegree reckless homicide. Sentence combining a composing book william strong on. Simply put, sentence combining involves putting short, choppy sentences together to make more interesting, readable. If published, the official version will appear in the bound volume of the official reports. 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. Too many short sentences make a paragraph sound choppy. Combine parts from column one and column two to create sentences. The american army had few supplies and few trained military leaders in the winter of 1776. A verb expresses an action swim, think or a state of being is, become. Aims to help writing students strengthen their writing skills thr. He also appeals from an order denying his motion for postconviction relief. Improving sentence writing ability through sentence combining practice, january 2007. Do this by making a 3x5 card with the sentence patterns on the front and the key words on the back.
Sentence combining a composing book william strong 2. Please memorize the options above, including the key words. In this approach, students are presented with kernel sentences and. A subject names who john or what traveling in europe the sentence is about.
Combining sentences encourages a writer to take two or more short, choppy sentences and combine them into one effective sentence. English lessons with adam learn english engvid 1,363,598 views 15. A simple sentence may be defined as a subject, a verb, and one idea. The effects of sentencecombining instruction on the writing of. In the new book strong works with combining but also with problems of. Download pdf 2000 wi 50 supreme court of wisconsin case no 980248cr complete title of case. Improving sentences via sentence combining instruction.
Connecting and combining in sentence and paragraph writing by helen mills. 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. Then, complete all twentysix sentence combining practices online. Combine each group of sentences into one, wellformed sentence. Sentence combining a composing book william strong 1. Strong, william by limiting sentence combining to the arena of syntax and skills, an individuals own thinking is seriously constricted. Nov 15, 2012 the 4 english sentence types simple, compound, complex, compoundcomplex duration.
William strong, random house, 1981 william strongs new book, sentence combining and paragraph building, is humane, carefully made, and highly useful. Download citation the effects of sentencecombining instruction on the writing of fourthgrade students with writing difficulties one area of writing that may. Jan 08, 2015 william strongs first and second edition of sentence combining. Fanboys for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so when using conjunctions, you are combining two independent clauses ic with a comma and then a conjunction. 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. William strongs first and second edition of sentence combining. Sentence combining and embedding free language stuff. As a method of teaching writing, sentence combining grew out of studies in transformationalgenerative grammar and was popularized in the 1970s by researchers and teachers such as frank ohare and william strong. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Any linguistic act is simultaneously two games at oncean inner game of intention and strategy, and an outer game of actual performance. William strong wrote another book about writing development, coaching writing, that i purchased at a writing workshop.
Metalinguistic sentence combining stars university of central. Sentence combining classroom strategies reading rockets. William strong is the author of sentence combining 4. A composing book 3rd edition paperback paperback jan. On october 27 and 28, 1978, more than 350 people representing over 100 institutions in 38 states and canada came to oxford, ohio to attend the. For example, use a complex sentence if you want to make one idea subordinate to another and a compound sentence if you want to join ideas of equal weight.
Improving sentence writing ability through sentence combining. New to this edition are two endoftext appendices on sentence combining, the writing. 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. A composing book are no longer in print, but the 3 rd edition 1995 still is mcgrawhill. Sentence combining and generative rhetoric by william l. William strongs most popular book is sentence combining. William strong has 48 books on goodreads with 238 ratings. William strong directs the utah writing project at utah state university, where he teaches courses in writing, english education, and contentarea literacy. Formatting sentence combining examples these simple formatting conventions are used in sentencecombining exercises saddler, 2005. Sentences have to be combined to avoid the monotony that would surely result if all sentences were brief and of equal length. Robert gordon sproul was a member of the university of californias class of 1912. One cure for flabby prose is greater attention to more lean, muscular writing by, whenever possible, creating a subordinate clause for one sentence by combining another sentence with it. The book i recommend all the time related to sentence combining and other related instructional practices is bruce sadlers teachers guide to effective sentence writing 2012.
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