Paragraph Cohesion and Sentence Fluidity BEST PRACTICES Paragraphs

+ Paragraph Cohesion and Sentence Fluidity

+ BEST PRACTICES: Paragraphs n We’ve talked about overall structure and sentence structure. Now: let’s talk about PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE n A good paragraph: n Manageable in size and focused on a central point n The meaning of its sentences are unambiguous n Has concrete topic sentences n SMOOTH, LOGICAL connections among ideas n Connect ideas and foster coherence by exploiting four methods

+ METHOD 1 n Link the subjects of juxtaposed sentences. EX: To heat the sample, tungsten-halogen lamps are used below and above the fused silica tube. These lamps contain a tungsten filament and bromide gas inside a quartz bulb. By resistive heating alone, the lamps can attain temperatures of 300 °C to 400 °C.

+ METHOD 2 n Link the end of one sentence to the beginning of the next sentence. The film is not completely oriented in a single direction, and the system includes a number of entanglements. These entanglements become frozen into position as the film crystallizes.

+ METHOD 3 n Link sentences through implicit similarity, repetition, contrast, or causality. When a subject views an object initially as a circle, that image becomes imprinted on the brain. Even when the eye and brain can distinguish an ellipse from the circle, memory tricks the subject into seeing a circle. The addition of oxygen promotes soot formation, particularly at low temperatures. On the other hand, oxygen also removes aromatic rings and active intermediates by oxidation, thus suppressing soot formation at high oxygen concentrations. Because the wire is flexible, the sonde can rely on its own weight to pull it down the hole, essentially doing a free fall. Therefore, the sonde tends to get stuck easily in highly deviated holes.

+ METHOD 4 n Establish a particular order and then follow through with that order (steps; dates/time; logic). Norris describes three forms of exit morphology. In the first form, development has spread to both sides of the intersecting road, but is still limited to one side of the interstate. In the second form, development exists on both sides of the highway. In the third form, which Norris labels full development, services are located along both sides of the intersecting roads and along ancillary feeder roads.

+ Revise the following paragraph to make it more fluid and cohesive: In China, people don’t like milk. In the United States, 60% of people really like milk. Amy Jones’s study shows that 80% of people can’t drink milk in China. Food consumption preferences is a cultural issue. Because certain people ate certain things throughout history, they have different tastes. Certain cultures typically don’t like one thing, while other cultures might. There are many reasons why people in China don’t consume milk as often as Americans do.

+ Paragraph Revised Amy Jones’s study concretely shows how historical dietary trends influence the way different cultures value different types of food. For example, while 80% of Americans reported enjoying cow’s milk, 60% of Chinese respondents described cow’s milk as “disgusting” (Jones 8). The reasons for this disparity has a great deal to do with cultural norms established by a region’s historical dietary trends, Jones claims. In China, for example, cow’s milk was only introduced as a dietary staple by the West, where cow’s milk has been consumed for generations (Jones 2). While Westerners have relied on cow’s milk for protein and calcium consumption, the Chinese have largely relied on soy products, meat, and green vegetables, which are more plentiful in their region.