A Professor's Guide to Writing Essays: The No-Nonsense Plan for Better Writing by Jacob Neumann

Author:Jacob Neumann
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-11-02T21:00:00+00:00

In addition, you can also transition from one idea to the next within a paragraph by how you shape your sentences. These transitions don’t rely on transition “words” to move the argument; instead, they use the shape of the narrative. Here’s a sample paragraph that uses both types of transitions. I’ll put them in italics:

Defining quality in teaching is unusually difficult. Were anyone serious about this issue, they would soon realize that quality is an ineffable concept, as the best-selling book by Pirsig (1974) made clear. Defining quality always requires value judgments about which disagreements abound. Studying teaching cross-culturally makes this evident (Alexander, 2000). A high-quality teacher in India does not allow questioning by students. Students simply listen for hours on end. The opposite is true in many American classes, where students are expected to raise questions during class. Alexander (2000) found that maintaining discipline is not part of any definition of quality in Russia or India because there are almost no discipline problems in their schools. But in the organizationally complex world of American and British schools, with individualization of some activities, promotion of collaboration and negotiation, and a concern for students’ feelings, there is a greater incidence of behavior problems. Thus, American and British teachers of high quality must have classroom management skills that are unnecessary in Russia or India. (Berliner, 2005)

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