English Composition › Section C · The literacy narrative › Topic C.3
Editing focus: sentence structure and variety
Once a draft's structure works, its sentences decide how it sounds. Knowing how clauses combine lets you join ideas correctly, vary your rhythm and cut the patterns that make prose choppy, vague or wordy.
In this topic
- From the whole draft to the sentence
- Clauses: the building blocks
- Four sentence types
- Joining independent clauses correctly
- Worked example: combining choppy sentences
- Varying length, type and opening
- Clear doers: vague 'you' and 'this'
- Expletives and wordiness
- Worked example: editing a paragraph
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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