Analysis Of No Impact Man By Beavan

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In Beavan’s writing I believe I see: simple, compound, complex, and compound complex sentences. I think Beavan uses a good mixture of these types to help develop his points and keep the reader interested. I feel that if all his points were made in simple sentences, people would get bored easily. Also if Beavan choose to only use compound complex sentences the paper may seem too much for many readers. Beavan uses a good mix in my opinion. I believe he uses compound sentences the most in his writing or complex the most in his writing. I might be wrong though I only vaguely remember what these sentences structures actually mean. For my sentence structure in my paper I would say is manly composed of simple and compound. I didn’t intentionally plan …show more content…

Most of Beavan’s paragraphs are relatively small. Beavan doesn’t try to over load any of his paragraphs with too much information. This I believe helps the reader continue to read without getting tired. If the paragraphs were extremely long the reader may feel tired. Beavan has seamless transitions from one paragraph to the other. This also helps the reader keep on tract and not causing confusion with a fast switch out of nowhere. I would like to go over the third paragraph in on page 142, starting with “Since 1950” (Beavan, 142). The first thing I would like to point out is in this paragraph I see simple, compound, and complex, and compound complex sentences. I had previously mentioned I think this is an effect way of keeping the reader interested. If there was to many simple sentences the paragraph would be very dull. The paragraph is very precise on what it is trying to tell the reader, U.S. gross domestic product growth doesn’t guarantee happiness. I really like how the paragraph ends with a question that would make the reader think about everything they had just read. I think this paragraph was well done. For my paragraphs I need to work on being more concise. I need to include better transitions from one paragraph to another. I could also work on shorting my paragraphs, I usually tend to write long

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