Make Your Writing Flow | Sentences: Transitions, Subordination, and Modification 

That makes my day--happy to hear it helped you get back in the groove! Thanks for the kind words!

I'm not sure where I was--but I'm glad you're finding some helpful world-expansion now! It's always good when the algorithm comes through

@@WritingwithAndrew I wish you would of been around 50 years ago.

Thanks for the kind words--I'm glad to hear you're enjoying it!

Thanks for the kind words--I'm glad it was helpful!

I know what you mean. Blame it on Hemingway's style becoming the most lauded and predominant, as opposed to, say, that of Faulkner's.

Thanks so much! I appreciate it!

Thanks a lot--I'm glad it helped!

That's very kind--I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Yes, let the syntax flow through you! Nice work (and thanks for the kind words)!

Thanks so much--I'm really pleased to hear the videos have helped! Good luck on that assignment!

Thanks--I'm glad it helped!

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You're welcome--I'm always happy to hear it's helpful! Thanks for watching!

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Thanks! Conversation is another beast entirely--if you figure that one out, share your secrets with me lol!

That means a lot--thanks!

@@WritingwithAndrew Cheers 🥂

That's really interesting--sorry to hear about your punctuation woes, though!

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Hey, cool--I hope they help! Thanks for watching!

Thank you very much! I guess I have to start somewhere--it just means we have to spread the word!

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Thanks! I could recommend writers that I have admired at different times over the years--George Orwell, Wayne Booth, Richard Lanham, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ted Kooser--but one of the cool things about flow is that you'll probably notice the effect before you notice the techniques. So if you find yourself enjoying a book's style, I'd bet you could find many (if not all) of these flow techniques being used

Hey thanks! I don't have any kind of formal list anywhere (maybe I could talk about that in greater detail in a video if it would be interesting). The top shelf is mostly poetry and books on writing style, and the second shelf has rhetorical theory (Aristotle, Burke, Booth, Perelman, etc.) and teaching stuff

Glad it helped! Most readers will consider clarity the primary virtue of writing, and it is important but not all there is. No harm in backtracking to practice controlling a sentence--just don't stay there :)

@@WritingwithAndrew Well said, and even when I find these normal constructions to be longer and more “sticky” than it needs to be, it does at least start with the clarity in mind. Sticky sentences tend to overflood details of a sentence or paragraph, while negating the basic principle of reader's understanding. What's important boils down to: clarity, conciseness, voice, flow, and finally transition. There might be other pointers I missed, but, every paragraph fundamentally considers those keys in that order to quote-unquote, “good writing”. Tending to backtracking, however, might not last forever...

@@gamewriteeye769 Yeah, cool thoughts--I really like thinking of sentence parts as sticky...that's going to give me something to ponder for a while :)

@@WritingwithAndrew **How To Make Sticky Sentences Flow** True; my writing style since has doubled back to sort of using sticky sentences/glue words (almost like a full circle) and I can honestly say it's refreshing to just go back to my normal style of writing, now enhanced with the power of grammar structure; punctuation and all. I don't think I'll be switching out of this style for another, as it plays to phrases where I like a melodical tone; it feels unrestrained and untempered, and I freakin' love the sound and flow of it. Why stop, right? As rigid as we temper our writing to be like everybody else's or follow those magical “rules” of writing, the truth is it comes down to your own level of writing and what you're comfortable with; I know I like my style, as it appeals to what I like to read and write, and I won't have others tell me that isn't right; I write my own rules, and no one can tell you that's how you do it. The best we can hope for is an answer: but the best of dreams we make from our creativity pours out of the way we do things best. And that, my philoscribophile, is how we learn to mold our own writing into its shape. And the best of times, even at the worst of times, comes out of what we make. Imagination, and...creativity.

@@gamewriteeye769 Well put--all those rules are just fossilized conventions anyway. They're useful for showing you understand the tradition, but they're not actually binding. If it works, it works!

Thanks-you bet I am!

Thank you! I definitely have more videos planned, but also feel free to let me know if there's anything you'd like to see a video about in the future

Thanks for your reply. Im a Freelance blog post writer. If its possible for you to then please make a video about these 2 topics 1: how to deliver our idea through writing. 2: How to expend small points into long sentences. Thanks

@@allaboutknowledge6069 Good suggestions--I'm putting the first one on the schedule. For your second one, check out the video "How to Write a Longer Paper" on this channel: it should help with expanding smaller points

@@WritingwithAndrew Im really glad that you appreciate my sugestion. Im eagerly waiting for your videos.

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Thanks! That's an interesting suggestion: I don't have a lot experience with handbooks, but they're definitely out there. It would probably be worth talking about them, though, so I'll put it on the list

We love to hear it! Thanks lol

Interesting question. Most style commentators are usually guided by the standards of literary writing (especially fiction), so they make strong statements that don't work in every situation. Those kinds of transitions would probably look odd in a novel, but they can be really useful in academic writing for giving readers a sense of how abstract ideas are related to each other. In literary writing there are other tools (like chronological narration) to help readers find their way, so overt transitions like that may seem a little heavy-handed. It's definitely possible that academic writers could do without them, but academic writers are also doing a very different job that requires different tools (so I'd hesitate to outlaw them in all cases)

To be fair, even the best thesis presentation is probably a nightmare on some level 😅

It's not impossible--but don't be too hard on yourself either. From what I've seen, people don't usually respond to discussion posts unless it's specifically required--and then they usually just respond to the first one they see. Grad school is a great opportunity to work on your writing, but your current lack of responses may have more to do with them than with you (especially if you're making the grade). Either way, thanks for watching!

The first video in the series? Check out the Writing Flow playlist if you haven't already, and you'll be able to find it there

@@WritingwithAndrew Thank you, sir!

Thanks--I have changed the font since, but it's always a good reminder!

We need to develop our learning process by developing our capacities in life so that we flow with other people's minds and ways of teaching, a visual learning knows how to learn well visually so why not take that knowledge of self to listen in visual ways to become a more imaginative learning as humans learned through storytelling at night around the fire or in the rain of a hurricane...you are my friend an ORAL-AURAL LEARN by the sheer nature of your beloved human nature...so listen and learn through the rhythm of language while realizing your asking a teacher to improve their skills is a sign of Post Modern times in which sacred orders of teacher student are no longer respected as Sacred nor regarded as divine order...hierarchy in teaching is imperative to us students who learn best by flowing in the direction of our teachers' theory and methodology...thisvteachervis the best there is and I want you to know this so you are able to learn in New ways that are innate to your being human...visual learns when we are able to see, oral-aural learns when we are able to listen.. tactile learns when we are able to feelnour soul and listen to the thoughts of our heart...

Check the "Writing Flow" playlist on the channel--all three videos in the series can be found there

If you have the means to acquire one, Writing with Andrew will do nothing to impede you

(Uh oh, don't watch my semicolon video... 😅) But you're right--a semicolon keeps things moving where a full stop brings things to a, well, full stop 😂

lol, what gave it away?

@@WritingwithAndrew every sentence is centered around eggs 😅

You bet!