Wednesday, 9 July 2025

New Writing Framework - sentences. Not.

 The new Writing Framework is largely structured round the idea that writing is made up of sentences. This is summed up in their false statement:  'All writing is ultimately made up of sentences'.

The fact is that most standard English extended prose is made up of sentences. It's plainly wrong to say that 'all writing is ultimately made up of sentences'. In this blog I give plenty of examples of writing that is not made up of sentences: 

https://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2024/06/whats-happened-to-sentence-does-it.html

A few moments thought, and we can easily find others: powerpoint presentations, titles, slogans, lists - and talking of lists - there's another way in which we have been writing for hundreds of years without making a sentence: proverbs and idioms. Here's a list of some of them.

More haste, less speed.

Cold hands, warm heart.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Like father, like son.

No rest of the wicked.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

Penny wise, pound foolish.,

Slow but sure.

To each his own.

Too little, too late.

Whatever floats your boat.