Writing Tutorial #1

Timestamps:

1:58 Topic sentences & paragraph organization

4:04 Such as vs. Like

6:48 Develop interesting ideas; don't drop them

7:36 Set up the reader's expectations with the topic sentence

9:08 Emphasize important points with independent clauses; minimize unimportant ideas with dependent clauses

11:29 Don't use multiple sentences to express a single idea

13:20 Semi-colons express two sides of the same idea

14:11 Coordinating conjunctions vs sentence connectors

The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities by Eric Hayot