Read the opening paragraph response and then complete the exercise that follows.
- Read the 100% response and then, in the comments section, list three more verbs that indicate the effects of the authors’ techniques. You do not need to write full sentences for this exercise; you may simply list your answers.
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The 100% Response
Joe Moran begins the extract with a short simple sentence that establishes a basic fact about his sentence-writing routine: ‘First I write a sentence.’ Additionally, the basic structure of this opening sentence emphasises the first step in writing, that is to simply to write a sentence, rather than spending time thinking about what to write. This suggests that he does not wait for the perfect sentence to come into his head; he just needs ‘a tickle of an idea for how the words might come together.’ As the paragraph develops, he utilises a variety of short, long, simple and more complex sentences to reflect the variety of methods he uses to write, such as, ‘…sound out the sentence… tap it on my keyboard… say it out aloud…’
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