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Essay Editing. No 1 st /2 nd Person I, me, my, we, our, you, your No Contractions Can’t, won’t, it’s didn’t, they’re Transitions The best transition is an elegant transition that comes from a smooth flow of ideas, rather than from just using stilted signal phrases
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Essay Editing • No 1st/2nd Person • I, me, my, we, our, you, your • No Contractions • Can’t, won’t, it’s didn’t, they’re • Transitions • The best transition is an elegant transition that comes from a smooth flow of ideas, rather than from just using stilted signal phrases • Does the writer include analysis of why or how something happens, rather than just explaining the incident? • Yes, Winston faces a fate worse than death, but how does Orwell use this fate to reflect on the entire society? Why break Winston rather than kill him? • “[Julia is] a rebel from the waist down” (Orwell 145).