Exploring Writing 2nd Edition by John Langan

Exercise 4

Fill in the missing words.
1. To achieve better organization, Diane sets off the third supporting point with the word " ____________."
2. In the interest of (unity, support, coherence) __________________ , Diane crosses out the sentence " _________________." She realizes this sentence is not a relevant detail, but really another topic.
3. To add more (unity, support, coherence) _______________________, Diane changes "giant soda" to "____________ "; she changes "food" to "______________ "; and she adds " _____________ " after "bucket of popcorn."
4. To eliminate wordiness, she removes the words "______________" from the fourth sentence.
5. In the interest of parallelism, Diane changes "lines that are long" to" _____________."
6. For greater sentence variety, Diane combines two short sentences, beginning the first sentences with the subordinating word " _________."
7. To create a consistent point of view, Diane changes "you have to drive" to " _______________."
8. Finally, Diane replaces the somewhat vague "other people" with the more precise " __________."