Writing Academic English 4th Edition

Nowreadthesameessaywiththesentencestructurerevised.

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African-Americanpeople·inMontgomerybegana boycottofthepublicbuses,

andtheboycottwastremendouslysuccessful,andit lastedmorethanayear.

TheSupremeCourtoftheUnitedStatesfinallyruledthatsegregationonpublic

transportationwasunconstitutional.African-Americanshadwona hugevictory,

andtheyrealizedtheirpowertochangethesystem.

Chapter 10 Il\!pesofSentences 115

NowthatyouknowthebasickindsofsentencesinEnglish,youcandevelopa good

writingstyle.Writingthatusesonlyonekindofsentenceis boringandmaynotcon-

veythemessagethatyouintend.

Asyoureadthemodelessay,noticethekindsofsentences.

• Paragraphs1 and4 havetoomanycompoundsentences.Thisstyleis boring
  becausesomanysentencesuseandastheconnector.


• Paragraph2 hastoomanysimplesentences.Thisstylesoundschoppy.


• Paragraph3 usesa goodmixtureofsentencetypes.

Sentence1);pes andWriting Style