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<br> <br> 1. The Complexity of the English Sentence. <br> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Tools, Not Rules. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> The Anatomy of a Sentence's Meaning, from the Reader's Perspective. </div> <p></p> <br> <br> 2. A Structural Anatomy of the English Sentence. <br> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> The Fallacy of Good and Bad Sentences. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Reader Expectations at the Sentence Level. </div> <p></p> <br> <br> 3. Weights and Balances; Motions and Connections. <br> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Artificial EMPHASIS, and When to Use It. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Fred and His Dog: Competition for Emphasis. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Moments of Truth: The Shape of the Sentence, Revisited. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> The Backwards Link of the Topic Position. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> The Various Functions of the Stress Position. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> The Flow of Thought from Sentence to Sentence. </div> <p></p> <br> <br> 4. “Whose Paragraph Is It, Anyway?”: The Shapes of the English Paragraph. <br> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Procrustean Problems in Teaching the Paragraph. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> The Issue. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Point. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Pointless Paragraphs. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Connections Between Paragraphs. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Summarizing Paragraph Structures. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> A Note on Whole Documents. </div> <p></p> <br> <br> 5. “Write the Way You Speak” and Other Bad Pieces of Advice. <br> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Bad Advice; and Why Not to Take It. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> The Toll Booth Syndrome. </div> <p></p> <br> <br> 6. Mark My Words: A Reader's Perspective on the World of Punctuation. <br> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> From Fetters to Facilitators: Punctuation as Power. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> The Semi-colon: A Hope for an Afterlife. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> A Brief Glimpse at the History of Punctuation. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> The Colon: Play It Again, Sam. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Dashes -- (Parentheses), Commas, and [Brackets]: Pardon the Interruption. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> The Hyphen: In the Midst of Things. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> The Question Mark: Is Anything Uncertain Here? </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> The Exclamation Point and Other Forms of Artificial Emphasis: Look at Me! </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> The Use of Punctuation with Quotation Marks: Consistency, Logic, and Illogical Consistency. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> The Apostrophe: Whose Who's Are What's What. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> The Ellipsis: Now You Don't. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> The Period: A Comfort Zone. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> The Comma: It Gives One Pause. </div> <p></p>