Monday, November 9, 2015

How Coordination and Subordination Helps Comparison and Contrast

The methods for fixing run-ons also works well with coordination and subordination of two ideas!

If you are writing on two texts in the same essay, you will want to make your points (thesis, topic sentences) using techniques that are found in S-8 (pages 258-260), as well as those demonstrated in the Editing Run-ons lecture. 

Linking Equal Ideas: making sentences where two subjects are addressed in relationship to each other....
  • coordinating conjunctions (, FANBOYS)
    • Both _______ and _______  [verb]  significant idea
    • _________ , but/yet _____= contrast formula
    • complete sentence, FANBOYS complete sentence
  • correlative conjunctions (especially, with our assignment:  Just as...so   OR Not only...but also...page 259)
    • Just as ______ [verb], so does ______ [verb]...

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