Mike Hannay en J. Lachlan Mackenzie - Effective Writing in English

3.4 An example 59 3.5 Review 60

4 The body 63

4.1 Introduction 63 4.2 Physical presentation 63 4.3 Structuring the body 64 4.4 The make-up of the body paragraph 67 4.5 Editing the body 71 4.6 Review 72

5 The conclusion 73 5.1 Introduction 73

5.2 The topic sentence 74 5.3 The elaboration 76 5.4 The climax sentence 78 5.5 Review 80

PART 3 Constructing effective sentences

6 Clause combining 83 6.1 Introduction 83

6.2 Finite dependent clauses 84 6.2.1 Adverbial clauses 85

6.2.2 Non-restrictive relative clauses 86 6.3 Non-finite clauses 87 6.4 Verbless clauses 90 6.5 Foregrounding, backgrounding and segmenting 90 6.6 Position 93

6.6.1 Initial position and orientation 93 6.6.2 Medial position and explanation 94 6.6.3 Final position and elaboration 95 6.6.4 A special case: using non-restrictive relative clauses 97

6.7 Sentence length 99

6.7.1 Long sentences 99 6.7.2 Short sentences 101

6.8 Review 104