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English Composition · Chapter 5

The Hinge Studio

Six paragraphs of a burnout paper, scrambled, each reduced to the one sentence a reverse outline would put in the margin. Drag or nudge them into an order where each paragraph depends on the one before it, then fit every junction with a hinge that looks back and steps forward. On the right you read only the opening lines — which is all a grader marking forty papers at eleven at night actually reads.
1 Order the paragraphs · 2 choose each opener
Hinges are for real logical joints. If you cannot write one, the answer is not a fancier sentence — it is that the paragraphs are in the wrong order, or one of them belongs in a different paper.

The skim column

—Junctions that follow
—Openers doing work