Ideias about writing and revising.

StyleCheatsheet.txt

I.Character Principles
1. Use subjects to name characters in  your story.
2. Invent absent characters.


II.Action Principles
1. Use verbs to name their actions.
2. Eliminate patterns of nominalizations.


III.Cohesion Principles
1. Put old information before new information.
2. Use passives to create a sense of flow.


IV. Local Coherence Principles
1. Make key subjects the main topics of sentences.
2. Create a string of topics.


V. Emphasis
1. Follow cohesion principles.
2. Put new information in the stress position.


VI.Introduction Principles
1. Determine the type of question. [practical/conceptual]
2. Make the reader qualify the first paragraph. [shared context]
3. Challenge the shared context. [but/however]
4. State the condition of the problem.
5. State the cost of the problem. [so what?]
6. State the solution/main point.
7. Support, develop and explain your solution/main point with the following:
-background or context.
-reasons for supporting your point.
-evidence, facts or data supproting your point.
-consideration of other points of view.


VII.Conclusion Pinciples
1. Re-state the solution given in the introduction.
2. Re-state the cost of the problem. [so what?]
3. Sugest further problem to be solved. [Now what?]


VIII. Global Coherence Principles
*****The document can be ordered in the following:
chronologial: from earlier to later, narrative r cause and effect.
Coordinate : by importance, complexity. ..
Logical: assertation and contracdition, premise and conclusion...

FOR PARAGRAPHS, SECTIONS, WHOLE.
1. Open each unit with a relatively short segment introducing it.
2. End the segment with a sentence stating the point of that unit.
3. Toward the end of that point sentence, use key themes that the rest of the unit develops.
4. Start a new section with a heading that includes key themes for that section.


VIII.Compression Principles
1.Delete meaningless words.
2.Delete doubled words.
3.Delete what readers can infer.
4.Compress a phrase to a word.
5.Change negatives to affirmatives.
6.Delete useless adjectives and adverbs.


TAKING GOOD NOTES
1. Read bibliographical information.(authors,title,edition,city, publiher,year, magazine, date published)
2. Copy quotations exactly as they appera in the original.
3. Don't paraphrase too closely.
4. Use APA style citation standard.


1. If you create too many short pontuated sentences, revise into subordinate clauses or phrases.
2. If you create too long one senteces be carefull with sprawls.