Tca notes - CH 8 PDF

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Tuesday, October 22, 2019

TCA 201 Transitions !

- Transitions glue your paragraphs and sentences together smoothly. Transitions connect ideas and creates a smooth, even flow. - Transition page 69!

- Importance of Headings and Subheadings ! • Connection ! • Organization! • Attention ! - Use Headlines Versus Subject Lines ! • Most business writing contains a subject line. Get your readers attention by using a headline !

- Market Report vs. Market Visit Uncovers Issues - Meeting vs. Meeting Schedule Change CH 8

- Sentence Types ! • Simple ! - Profits increased 35 percent in the past year! • Sing Subject , Single Predicate • Complex! - Although you may question Gerald’s conclusions, you must admit that. His research is thorough. !

• Expresses one main thought (independent clause) and one or more subordinate thoughts (dependent clauses) related to it, often separated by a comma.

• Compound ! - Wages declined by 5%, and employee turnovers has been higher than ever. !

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• Two main clauses that express two or more independence but related thoughts of equal important joined by “coordinating conjunction”.

• Compound-Complex ! - Profits increased 35% in the past year, so although the company faces long term challenges, I agree that its short-term prospects look quite positive. !

• Two main clauses, at least one of which contains a subordinate clause. - Combine Sentences ! • Coordinating. Conjunctions ! - , and ! - , but! - , nor! - , or! - , so! - , yet. ! • Conjunction Adverbs! - ; consequently ! - ; furthermore! - ; hence / however / incidentally / moreover / nevertheless ! • Subordinating Conjunctions ! - After - before - unless - although - if - until - as - provided - when - as if - since whenever - as long as - so that - where - as soon as - !

• Relative pronouns ! - that - which - who - whom

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