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 ...

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..

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.

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 ...

How To Write a (Good) Sentence Adam Haslett on Stanley Fish. By Adam Haslett. Jan 23, 2011 1:36 AM. Tweet Share Share Comment Tweet Share Share Comment ...

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.

We will conclude the topic today by looking at more major issues and other related ones. Therefore, the fourth point is that, in summary writing, your sentence should be brief and sharp.