– Literacy can be defined in numerous different ways of context, but has a specific meaning when it comes to Discourse.
-This mastery allows the person to be an active member of the Discourse and they can implement this Discourse into their values, beliefs, and actions.
– In her first two years of school, she simply read text to retain information but she was able to teach herself new reading techniques and strategies as the years went on.
These are compound sentences because I take two independent clauses that share similar ideas, and I connect them using connecting words such as “and” and “but”. I connect these independent clauses together to emphasize the connections and information they share, and to make my sentences more fluid for the reader to understand.
-However, the results section is the core of the paper because it presents the reader with new knowledge.
-Although it is not often valued as largely as the other aspects of IMRAD, the identity of the author is vital for the reader’s relationship with the paper.
These are complex sentences because of the subordinating conjunctions I use such as “although” and “because”. In the first sentence, I use “because” to explain the first clause in the sentence using the second clause. In the second sentence, I use “although” to emphasize a change in tone. The sentence prior to this one states information, and I use “although” to indicate to the reader that this sentence will contain information that relates to the prior sentence, but may state different information.
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