We have looked into several intrinsic or implicit strategies for making a transition to a new paragraph from the one preceding it. All these strategies begin the new paragraph with a sentence that ...

Last week, Part 2 of this series started discussing implicit or intrinsic paragraph transition hooks. Unlike explicit or extrinsic hooks, this second type of paragraph transition device makes use of ...

Transitions are signals or cues in writing that show the reader the relationship between one idea and the next. Transitions help the reader see that a certain line of reasoning is being continued, ...

A paragraph is a collection of related sentences dealing with a single topic. This handout breaks the paragraph down into its conceptual and structural components. The conceptual components — ...

Microsoft Excel allows you to store a variety of information in its cells. In addition to storing numeric values for calculations, Excel allows you to store text as well. Excel provides the same ...

Revision is re-seeing the writing you've done so far while keeping the reader in mind. It's your chance to look at your writing objectively to see how a reader would interpret and respond to your ...

Clean up your writing for clarity. Once you’ve got all your content and organization straightened out in your essay, then it’s time to take a look at your writing on the sentence level—but be sure ...