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The Structures of Communication

Two approaches to writing.

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Structures

Conceptual

Top-down

Conceptual is used in business reports, exam essaysetc.

Conceptual is what you will use most in yourcareer/life.

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Structures

Experimental

Bottom-Up

Rely on prewriting strategies like brainstorming to start the

process.

Often used in creative fields of endeavor.

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Reader Expectations

A preview (in the introduction) of the content & organization

of the document.

Paragraphs

A sentence (usually the first) in each paragraph that identifiesits topic

Unified paragraphs, each of which explores a single topic

Connections (transitions) within & between paragraphs

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How to start a communication everytime

Have something to say & a reason for saying it

Prewrite a brief outline

Organize your main points in the most effective order possible

Write good. Real good.

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Parts of an Essay

Five paragraph theme:

1. The beginning (or introduction)

Identifies the points you discuss in the report (often, in

order of appearance)

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Parts of an Essay

2. The middle or body

Paragraphs that discuss in detail the points identified in

the introduction.

Each paragraph develops 1 separate main point.

How is this done?

Each paragraph contains 3 essential parts:

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Parts of a Paragraph

a) Topic Sentence identifies the main point(s) of the paragraph

b) Support of the main point(s) of the paragraph

c) Conclusion ends discussion or links to the next paragraph

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WHAT I HAVE LIVED FOR

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THESIS Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, thesearch for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, haveblown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge ofdespair.

BODY

TOPIC SENTENCEI have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy -- ecstasy so great that I would often havesacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. SUPPORT I have sought it, next, because it relieves

loneliness -- that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world intothe cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in amystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what Isought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what -- at last -- I have found.

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TOPIC SENTENCEWith equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. Ihave wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by whichnumber holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pitybrought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims torturedby oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty,and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I toosuffer.

CONCLUSION

This has been my life. I have found it worth living & would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.