Do Now:

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Do Now

• On your handout, select the word or phrase that
  best completes the meaning for each sentence.
• Take out your Paragraph Builder Worksheet.

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Aim How do simple transitions make your
paragraphs more coherent?
Coherence in writing means that all of your
support CONNECTS to form a whole. Even when the
points and details are assembled in an order that
makes sense, they still need glue to connect
them.

• KEYS TO AN EFFECTIVE PARAGRAPH
• Focus on a main point
• Develop the main point
• Make paragraphs coherent

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Aim How do simple transitions make your
paragraphs more coherent?
What is about to be read
What has been read
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Aim How do simple transitions make your
paragraphs more coherent?
Transitions are words, phrases and sentences that
connect your ideas so that your writing moves
smoothly from one point to the next.
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Aim How do simple transitions make your
paragraphs more coherent?
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Aim How do simple transitions make your
paragraphs more coherent?

• Bodies grow faster than brains. Large animals
  have low ratios of brain weight to body weight.
  Brains grow only about two-thirds as fast as
  bodies. We have no reason to believe that large
  animals are consistently stupider than their
  smaller relatives. We must conclude that large
  animals require relatively less brain to do as
  well as smaller animals.

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Aim How do simple transitions make your
paragraphs more coherent?

• Addition You must complete this essay by 5 p.m.
  _______you must do the exercises on page 47.
• Examples He often eats strange foods. _______,
  he once ate cow brains.
• Contrast Bill earned an A on his essay,
  _______Susan got a B.
• Similarity Rock climbing takes much practice and
  skill. _______, learning to write well requires a
  great deal of practice.

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Aim How do simple transitions make your
paragraphs more coherent?

• Pair-Share Working with a partner, choose the
  transition that makes the most sense in the
  context.
• All the details in a paragraph must fit together
  and function as a connected unit of information.
• When a paragraph has coherence, its ideas flow
  smoothly, allowing readers to follow their
  progression with ease.

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Aim How do simple transitions make your
paragraphs more coherent?

• Imagine this paragraph is a part of a larger
  essay on Wendys. Insert transitional words
  phrases within this paragraph to make it more
  cohesive less choppy . To do so, youll need
  to determine what kind of relationships exist
  between sentences and phrases choose
  transitions that are appropriate (use list on pp
  95-96). You may change punctuation as needed.

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Aim How do simple transitions make your
paragraphs more coherent?

• In spite of such negative statistics, I will
  continue to frequent Wendys in the Student Union
  building.__ The fries are excellent.__ They are
  rarely too greasy.__ They are usually fresh and
  crispy.__ They arent too crispy.__ The burgers
  are sizzling hot.__ The warmth of the burger is
  accentuated by the coolness of the mayonnaise
  other condiments.__ A Frosty makes a good
  dessert. __Dinner at Wendys is not healthy. The
  food tastes great.

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Aim How do simple transitions make your
paragraphs more coherent?

• Coherence means
• An important way to ensure coherence in your
  writing is to
• Transitions are

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Aim How do simple transitions make your
paragraphs more coherent?