TY - BOOK AU - Gopen, George D. AU - George D. Gopen. TI - The sense of structure: : writing from the reader's perspective SN - 9780205296323 U1 - 808.042 GOP PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - : Pearson Longman KW - Rhetoric Report writing KW - Sense of Structure KW - Structure of writing N2 - Reflecting on the author's decades of experience as an international writing consultant, writer, and instructor, The Sense of Structure teaches writing from the perspective of readers. This text demonstrates that readers have relatively fixed expectations of where certain words or grammatical constructions will appear in a unit of discourse. By bringing these intuitive reading processes to conscious thought, this text provides students with tools for understanding how readers interact with the structure of writing, from punctuation marks to sentences to paragraphs, and how meaning and purpose are communicated through structure ER -