Chapter 1
Information and Ideas
Course: Sat Prep
Subject: Reading And Writing
Chapter: Expression Of Ideas 5879 11902
In this lesson, you will learn how rhetorical effectiveness makes writing clearer, stronger, and easier to understand. By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
- Define rhetorical effectiveness.
- Identify the four qualities of effective writing.
- Recognize problems with clarity, organization, economy, and unity.
- Apply effective revision strategies to improve writing.
- Revise weak writing into clear, focused, and effective communication.
The Four Qualities
Effective writing is clear, well ordered, economical, and unified. Each quality has its own test.
Each question is answerable. That is what makes this work practical rather than a matter of taste. A sentence that has to be read twice fails the clarity test, and the reason it fails can be found. A paragraph containing a sentence that serves a different job fails the unity test, and the offending sentence can be located.