Teaching students coherence in writing is a difficult task because it is also just as dependent on the reader’s perception as it is the author’s creation. To judge the failure or success of a piece of work, writers have to step outside and perceive it as a reader. In order for that, one must understand his or her own habits as a reader. Thus, to be a good writer, you must be a good reader. Second, transitions as linguistic cues must be used to signal a certain relationship to the reader. Finally, students of coherence can follow professional writers and continually learn to become smoother in conveying ideas even when teachers are absent.
Coherence is perhaps is one of the most apparent, yet most difficult elements of writing to achieve. An author can consider his own writing absolutely coherent, but be the work could be perceived as total drivel. I agree that a writer must understand how readers process textual information and exhibit that in his or her creation.
No comments:
Post a Comment