Most people know a good sentence when they read one, but New York Times columnist Stanley Fish says most of us don't really know how to write them ourselves. His new book, How To Write A Sentence ...

If you find writing topic sentences tricky, it might be helpful to prepare a bank of topic sentence stems or starters. For example, the first two topic sentences in a basic critical essay on the ...

The best way to write a perfect sentence is to lower your standards. I hope that advice doesn’t come across as some bait and switch, that there is no such thing as a perfect sentence.

Expand a short sentence to add more detail or meaning. Learn how to write complex sentences with BBC Bitesize KS3 English for students aged 11-14..

How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One Stanley Fish, Harper, $19.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-184054-8. A whole book on the lowly sentence?

Well, here you are, looking at this, trying, hoping, floundering, scrabbling, wishing, dying to find out the mystery of “how to” write a sentence. Or possibly you have tried write sentence and ...

Writing a strong topic sentence that establishes the subject of the paragraph; Using "echo words" -- i.e., consistent terms for the concepts throughout; Applying transitions to link sentences ...

Hochman: We give them very discrete ways to write topic sentences. So we might say one of the ways to start a topic sentence, and a very useful way, is to use a subordinating conjunction.

Next, focus on the opening sentence – a hook that should grab the reader's attention and let them "dive into the action," Stone says. “You really want to make sure it serves the essay," she says.

How to Write a Sentence, and How to Read One By Stanley Fish HarperCollins 176 pp; $22.99 Reviewed by Mike Doherty Stanley Fish has good timing: A book on crafti… ...