This new guide to the art of transition in the English language helps you to deploy a wide range of connnective words in order to improve the flow of your ideas. Designed for use in school or university, this book provides an indispensable compendium of essential words and phrases.
The Art of Connection begins by exploring the social life of sentences. McCormick then outlines the ways that connection and disconnection create thought-pathways in the process of composition. The educational psychology behind connection is also analysed.
Each chapter deals with the nine arts of connection: Location, Timing, Comparison, Contrast and Difference, the Supplement, Disputation, Sequence, Example and Illustration, and the Summary. Hundreds of practical examples of usage, drawn from the humanities and the sciences, from religion and the social sciences, from law, business and medicine are used illustrate each of the key topics. This book will be essential reading for students of EFL/ESOL/IELTS, for school or university students, and for creative or non-fiction writers working with the English language.
The Art of Connection: the Social Life of Sentences is your invaluable guide to more effective communication in written or spoken English.
Contents
1.0 Introduction
1.1 The Social Sentence
1.2 The Use of Connection
1.3 Understanding the Psychology of Transition
1.4 Style, Oratory, Elegance
1.5 The Flow of Spontaneity and Passion
1.6 Power, Rhetoric and Repetition
1.7 The Philosophy of Association
1.8 Beyond the Logic of Connection
1.9 Écriture féminine
1.10 Openings: the Genesis of this Book
2. The Art of Location
3. The Art of Timing
4. The Art of Comparison
5. The Art of Contrast and Difference
6. The Art of the Supplement
7. The Art of Disputation
8. The Art of the Sequence
9. The Art of Example and Illustration
10. The Art of the Summary
Further Reading
The Art of Connection begins by exploring the social life of sentences. McCormick then outlines the ways that connection and disconnection create thought-pathways in the process of composition. The educational psychology behind connection is also analysed.
Each chapter deals with the nine arts of connection: Location, Timing, Comparison, Contrast and Difference, the Supplement, Disputation, Sequence, Example and Illustration, and the Summary. Hundreds of practical examples of usage, drawn from the humanities and the sciences, from religion and the social sciences, from law, business and medicine are used illustrate each of the key topics. This book will be essential reading for students of EFL/ESOL/IELTS, for school or university students, and for creative or non-fiction writers working with the English language.
The Art of Connection: the Social Life of Sentences is your invaluable guide to more effective communication in written or spoken English.
Contents
1.0 Introduction
1.1 The Social Sentence
1.2 The Use of Connection
1.3 Understanding the Psychology of Transition
1.4 Style, Oratory, Elegance
1.5 The Flow of Spontaneity and Passion
1.6 Power, Rhetoric and Repetition
1.7 The Philosophy of Association
1.8 Beyond the Logic of Connection
1.9 Écriture féminine
1.10 Openings: the Genesis of this Book
2. The Art of Location
3. The Art of Timing
4. The Art of Comparison
5. The Art of Contrast and Difference
6. The Art of the Supplement
7. The Art of Disputation
8. The Art of the Sequence
9. The Art of Example and Illustration
10. The Art of the Summary
Further Reading
