LibGuides: Writing Toolkit: Sentence Style & Effectiveness

Sentence Style & Effectiveness

Good writing starts with good sentences; learn how to build a better sentence below.

Designing Effective Sentences
From the Paradigm Writing Assistant (POWA).
Focusing Sentences through Parallelism
From the Writer's Web at the University of Richmond's Writing Center.
Improving Sentence Clarity
From Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL).
Sentence Clarity Presentation
From Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL).
Sentences
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center.
Sentence Sense
This updated version of Sentence Sense offers a descriptive grammar that explores how Standard English sentences work.
Sentence Variety and Style
From English Composition I on the HyperTextbooks website, by Daniel Kies, Department of English, College of DuPage.
Strategies for (Sentence) Variation
From Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL).
Style
From the Writing Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Style: Sentence Combinations and Word Choice
From the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing at Ohio State.