Varying Sentences

"Variety is the spice of life." This is an expression in English that means that when you do different and exciting things in your life, life is good. Well, the same thing applies to writing! In order to "spice up" your writing, you must use a variety of sentence styles. Sometimes a simple sentence does the job and is the best choice for clarity. Sometimes you need to "connect the dots" for your readers by making compound sentences, by adding transitional (signal) words, by adding subordinating or coordinating conjunctions. Wait a minute, that's a lot of grammatical language there! So, I'll meet you in class and we will begin to work on what spices to add to your writing recipe to make it tasty!