2. Style: Toward Clarity and Grace Chap. 2

3.  Hand in by Friday 10pm for “on time grading”  After that, getting your assignment back quickly becomes problematic  If you hand in “on time” but do a poor job, you will waste your time and mine  You must pass each assignment before beginning the next

5.  1) Subjects of sentences name the cast of characters

6.  2) verbs that go with those subjects name crucial actions of those characters

7.  “Our lack of knowledge about local conditions precluded determination of committee action effectiveness in fund allocation to those areas in greatest need of assistance.”

9.  A noun derived from a verb

10.  Examples:  “We had the intention of completing…”  We intended to complete…  “There was a hesitance to analyze the problem fully.”  We hesitated to fully analyze the problem.  “The decision was made to share the workload.”  We decided to share the workload.

11. 1. Change the nominalization to a verb that can replace the empty verb 2. Change the nominalization to a verb and find a subject 3. Change the nominalization to a verb and find a NEW subject 4. Consecutive nominalizations: turn the first into a verb: 1. Leave out the second 2. Turn second into a verb in a “how” or “why” clause 3. Nominalizations linked by a verb or phrase 1. Change abstractions to verbs 2. Find subjects for those verbs 3. Link new clauses with a logical connection

13.  Useful nominalizations: 1. Nominalizations in a subject referring to a previous sentence 2. If nominalization names what would be the object of it’s verb 3. A succinct nominalization can replace an awkward “the fact that” 4. Some nominalizations refer to an often repeated concept 5. to introduce a topic that we develop in subsequent sentences 6. Topic is so abstract we can only write about it in abstraction

14. 1. Must audience know who is performing the action? 2. Are we maintaining a logically consistent string of subjects? 3. If the string of subjects is consistent, is it the right string of subjects?

15.  Announce what follows:  I (we) will:  Explain, show, argue, claim, deny, describe, suggest, contrast, add, expand, summarize  List parts or steps of our presentation:  First, second, third, finally  Express our logical connections:  Infer, support, prove, illustrate, therefore, in conclusion, however, on the other hand  Hedge how certain we are:  It seems that, perhaps, I believe, probably,…  Scholarly or academic writing  At the beginning: We claim that, we shall show, we begin by, …  And the end: we have suggested, I have shown that, …

16. Early childhood thought disorder misdiagnosis

17. What does “early” modify? Early Childhood? Early disorder? Early misdiagnosis?

18. Early childhood thought disorder misdiagnosis Misdiagnose disordered thought in early childhood