Wednesday, 22 July 2009

Structure and Cohesion

    I had borrowed a book from the library some days ago. However, last week we were busy in preparing the Dragon Dan Marketing Plan, therefore I didn't begin to read it.
    
    Today, after the face to face talk with the teacher, I aware that I have mangy problem about the language learning, such as speaking, writing, pronunciation and so on. In order to keep up with other students, thus I will be make more effort at learning English.

    I begin to read the book is called Academic Writing Course. The unit 1 is structure and cohesion, which  concerned with he general organization of a piece of academic writing, its structure and particularly the way in which the different parts are linked together. And we also write an essay, which organized in a similar way - introduction, development of main ideas or arguments, conclusions. But how to link the sentence by means of connective?

BASIC WORD:
AND --- so, therefore, as a result, accordingly, consequently, thus, hence
OR --- in other words, to put it more simply, it would be better to say
BUT --- however, nevertheless, nonetheless, yet, in spite of that, all the same

For example:
1. He passed his examinations.
    Therefore/So/As a result/Accordingly/Consequently/Thus/Hence he had some good news to tell his parents.

Then when we write the academic essays, we can use to express the meaning of AND, OR, BUT, which can link the sentences in the content.
 

1 comment:

  1. Very good. continuing to do this will ensure you make better progress. Keep it up!

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