Repretend

Teaching

Coherence means that the content of the project moves easily from piece to piece and makes sense to a naive reader. Unity means that your project has a sense of being one, complete unit that makes a purposeful statement.

Elements that can help coherence and unity: · Chronology or sequence of events

· Timeline of related events

· Diagram or family tree · Meta-story in which the smaller stories are embedded

· Repeated reference to one event

· One symbolic metaphor repeated throughout the project

· Visual Theme

· Selected quotes from a scholar, poem, song, work of literature. · Transitional small pieces of writing (repetends)

· Overview in the introduction

· Reference to earlier events

· Concluding review Problems to Avoid:

· Genre confusion--what is this?

· Narrator confusion--who is I?

· Chronology confusion--what happened first?

· Theme confusion--why am I reading this?

· Climactic confusion--what happens next?

· Interpretive confusion--how do you feel about this? Give your reader cues early in each piece: · Titles and Table of Contents

· Names of people and places

· Relationships stated clearly · Visuals

· Repeated thematic phrases · Overviews

· Guiding statements Dr. Nancy Mack Wright State University