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Brannan: A Writer's Workshop
A Writer's Workshop: Crafting Paragraphs, Building Essays
Bob Brannan, Johnson County Community College
Creating Sentence Variety

Writing On and Offline



This activity will help familiarize you with how professional writers vary their sentences. Visit any or all of the following sites and find an essay that interests you:

Then, note how the writer varies his or her sentences.



1

Can you find examples of each of the following: compound sentences, complex sentences, opening words and phrases, and verbs and adjectives in a series?

For additional help with varying sentences, visit Literacy Education Online or use your favorite search engine to find other useful sites on the web.



2

Take notes about what you've learned during your visit.








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