{"id":592,"date":"2022-10-27T13:19:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T13:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/?p=592"},"modified":"2023-09-22T12:51:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T12:51:47","slug":"using-sentence-templates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/archives\/592","title":{"rendered":"Using Sentence Templates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Academic writing typically requires longer, more complicated sentences because you have to interpret evidence or\u00a0 compare your ideas to those within another source.\u00a0 If longer sentences are not well-constructed, they can\u00a0 lack clarity or grammatical integrity. It’s also easy to fall into a pattern of passive voice when you are describing ideas opposed to actions.<\/p>\n

For those reasons, I highly recommend the worksheet of sentence templates below:<\/p>\n

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  1. It will provide you with a variety of verbs to use other than “is”, “are,”, “was”, “were”, and “will be.”<\/li>\n
  2. It will provide you with some conjunctions that indicate a transition or show relationships between ideas.<\/li>\n
  3. It is organized by how you wish to combine or express your ideas.<\/li>\n
  4. As a bonus, there’s additional transitions on the bottom!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    A Great Worksheet with Adaptable Sentence Templates\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

    This next worksheet also contains sentence templates and thought transitions, specifically to eliminate “I” from your writing, but some of the verbs are more passive. It’s still worth checking out!<\/p>\n

    A Great Worksheet\u00a0 with Sentence Starters\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

    This worksheet is useful because it has extended sentence templates for comparing topics in multiple sentences.<\/p>\n

    Extended Sentence Templates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Academic writing typically requires longer, more complicated sentences because you have to interpret evidence or\u00a0 compare your ideas to those within another source.\u00a0 If longer sentences are not well-constructed, they can\u00a0 lack clarity or grammatical integrity. It’s also easy to fall into a pattern of passive voice when you are describing ideas opposed to actions. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,75,114],"tags":[51,55,80,79],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-tips","category-resources-for-english-language-learners","category-resources-for-neurodivergent-writers","tag-esl-resources","tag-neurodiversity","tag-sentence-structure","tag-transitions","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}