Roxy Writer here, coming to you from the Stone Writing Center @ Del Mar College.
A common problem many students encounter when doing academic writing is the dreaded sentence fragment. So, I thought this would make an excellent topic for my newest entry.
“When I began to write about fragments….”
What happened? Did the idea overwhelm me? Did I draw a blank? Did I have a clue? There is a subject ( “I” ) and a verb ( “began” ), but I have not written a complete sentence. What I have written is a fragment simply because the thought is incomplete. I have left the reader wondering what happened as I began to write.
When I began to write about fragments, I decided to say that most fragments occur when the total meaning of the sentence is absent, unspoken, not written down. Consider the following very short tale:
“Because the tiger was wild. When the moon rose over the zoo. Thunder booming. During his recapture. After they built a larger cage.”
I have left details to the reader’s imagination, and most readers will automatically think of something to fill in the gaps and thereby complete the meaning of each fragment, making each a complete sentence in their minds.
“Because the tiger was wild, ____________. When the moon rose over the zoo, ____________. Thunder _________booming.
During his recapture, ____________. After they built a larger area ____________________.”
The problem is that I have left the meaning of the story up to the reader by not finishing my thoughts. Fragments leave room for the reader to imagine as he will, but does someone else know what I think happened to the tiger?
“Because the tiger was wild, he hated his cage. When the moon rose over the zoo, he made his escape. Thunder was booming, which covered the sounds of his breaking the lock. During his recapture, a zookeeper considered how the tiger felt. After they built a larger area for the tiger, he did not think of escaping again.”
Unless you trust your reader to fill in the blanks left by fragments in your writing, it would be wise for you to make sure that you have expressed a complete thought—your own.
Roxy’s tip: Express a complete thought! Don’t leave blanks for your reader.
See you next time the breeze is cool, the sun is up, and the waves roll into view! My next entry is coming soon. ‘Til then, hang ten!
Roxy Writer, Tutor Blogger for the Stone Writing Center at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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