Grammarly Blog

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Posts Tagged transitions


July 12

Reverse Psychology

I occasionally teach creative writing; last week’s class involved an exercise where we took the “World’s Worst Poem” (according to Google) and fixed it.  One of the people noted that she was able to see many faux pas in the author’s style of which she, herself, was guilty.  We all had a look at the [...]

November 09

Non-Formulaic Linking

Linking is one of those impossible-to-explain-and-more-impossible-to-understand things.  I see a lot of papers with red scrawls beside the beginning of each paragraph saying “Link!”  My students often have no idea what the teacher or professor means.  Draw chains? Linking is connecting one thought to another.  In formal writing, linking must be done smoothly, so the [...]