Centre for Healthcare Education Research & Scholarship, and Department of Technology Enhanced Learning and Innovation, Office of Education, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.
Centre for Education Research & Innovation, and Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and Faculty of Education, Western University, London, Canada.
Perspect Med Educ. 2023 Jan 6;12(1):20-24. doi: 10.5334/pme.727. eCollection 2023.
Most of us pay attention to intra-paragraph coherence: the idea that the sentences within a paragraph should logically develop a single idea. But we forget, or we struggle to master inter-paragraph coherence: the idea that paragraphs should be arranged so that our argument develops logically. Proximity isn't always enough to signal to readers how paragraphs are building on one another to create a compelling argument. Readers may still end up having to infer how one paragraph is linked to the next, and when they can't make those inferences (or they make them incorrectly) coherence suffers. This Writer's Craft offers techniques to enhance inter-paragraph coherence more consciously so that readers don't fall through the cracks between our paragraphs.
即一个段落中的句子应该合乎逻辑地发展出一个单一的观点。但是我们会忘记或者很难掌握段落间的连贯性：即段落的排列方式应该使我们的论点具有逻辑性。仅仅通过临近的段落并不能向读者清楚地表明它们是如何相互衔接以形成一个有说服力的论点的。读者可能仍然需要推断出一个段落是如何与下一个段落联系起来的，而当他们无法进行这些推断（或者推断错误）时，连贯性就会受到影响。本写作技巧提供了一些增强段落间连贯性的技巧，以避免读者在我们的段落之间产生困惑。
