1. Parallel Structure

2. What It Is
Parallel structure is using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas are equally important.
Parallel structures are usually joined by coordinating conjunctions like “and” or “but.”
Example 1: The Agricultural Adjustment Act subsidized farmers for reducing crops and provided loans for farmers facing bankruptcy.
Example 2: The Agricultural Adjustment Act subsidized farmers for reducing crops and had provided loans for farmers who faced bankruptcy.
paragraph 5 of the article “The New Deal”

3. Example 1
The Agricultural Adjustment Act subsidized farmers for reducing crops and provided loans for farmers facing bankruptcy.

4. Example 2
The Agricultural Adjustment Act subsidized farmers for reducing crops and had provided loans for farmers who faced bankruptcy.
DO NOT MATCH!!

5. 1. Farmers could take advantage of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which “subsidized farmers for reducing crops and provided loans for farmers facing bankruptcy” (“The New Deal”). 2. Paying farmers to plant less and lending them money to support their farms helped farmers stay in business through the Great Depression.
Part of paragraph 5 of “The New Deal”

6. Varied Phrases

7. 1. The Civil Conservation Corps was one of the New Deal’s most successful programs. 2. It addressed the pressing problem of unemployment by sending 3 million single men from age 17 to 23 to the nations’ forests to work. 3. Living in camps in the forests, the men dug ditches, built reservoirs and planted trees. 4. The men, all volunteers, were paid $30 a month, with two-thirds being sent home. 5. The Works Progress Administration, Roosevelt’s major work relief program, would employ more than 8.5 million people to build bridges, roads, public buildings, parks and airports.

8. Varied Phrases
A noun phrase is a phrase that acts as a noun within a sentence.
An adjectival phrase is a phrase that describes the noun.
A verb phrase is a phrase that assigns a verb to the subject of the sentence.
An adverbial phrase is a phrase that modifies the verb in the sentence.

9. 1. The Civil Conservation Corps was one of the New Deal’s most successful programs. 2. It addressed the pressing problem of unemployment by sending 3 million single men from age 17 to 23 to the nations’ forests to work. 3. Living in camps in the forests, the men dug ditches, built reservoirs and planted trees. 4. The men, all volunteers, were paid $30 a month, with two-thirds being sent home. 5. The Works Progress Administration, Roosevelt’s major work relief program, would employ more than 8.5 million people to build bridges, roads, public buildings, parks and airports.

10. Transitional Phrases

11. Important Terms
Cohesion: how well the paragraphs and sentences link the claims and evidence of a text together into a coherent (sounding logical) whole.
Cohesion is important in revision and should be done between paragraphs and sentences
Transitions are words and phrases that are used to create cohesion.

12. Example 1: The 1920s in America were prosperous times
Example 1: The 1920s in America were prosperous times. But starting in 1929 and lasting over a ten- year period, the Great Depression affected all Americans, rich and poor alike. Although the American economy had overcome economic depressions in the past, this time Americans’ lives changed forever. With widespread and long-lasting effects, the Great Depression ruined Americans’ livelihoods, yet it also drove them to be resourceful and use government assistance to survive. Example 2: Roosevelt’s first act as president was to declare a four-day bank holiday. Congress drafted the Emergency Banking Bill of The banking system was stabilized. The public’s faith in the banking industry was restored. He signed the Glass-Steagall Act, which created the FDIC, federally insuring deposits.

13. Example 1
The 1920s in America were prosperous times. But starting in 1929 and lasting over a ten-year period, the Great Depression affected all Americans, rich and poor alike. Although the American economy had overcome economic depressions in the past, this time Americans’ lives changed forever. With widespread and long- lasting effects, the Great Depression ruined Americans’ livelihoods, yet it also drove them to be resourceful and use government assistance to survive.

14. Example 2
Roosevelt’s first act as president was to declare a four-day bank holiday. Congress drafted the Emergency Banking Bill of The banking system was stabilized. The public’s faith in the banking industry was restored. He signed the Glass-Steagall Act, which created the FDIC, federally insuring deposits.
Lack of transitions makes the paragraph sound choppy or disjointed.