My favourite example is from Shakespeare:

'My conscience hath a thousand several tongues. And every tongue brings in a several tale. And every tale condemns me for a villain.' [Richard III]

Prime technique, I use it a lot, and thanks for the term – I never knew it was called anadiplosis.

John

Hi Everyone,

Many thanks for all your extremely interesting replies. Perhaps the most fascinating thing is just how passionate we all are about the work we do.

I thought I would move the discussion on (unless people want to discuss the previous topics further) to getting academic text to flow and to have direction.

I usually advise the occasional use of anadiplosis where a word or phrase appears at the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next.

Thus:

Without anadiplosis

Several approaches are required to solve this problem.  There are lots of apparent differences with these approaches but they are all qualitative and this is what they have in common.

With anadiplosis

To solve this problem we require several approaches.  These approaches appear to be very different but they have one thing in common – they are all qualitative.

Another use of anadiplosis is that it allows the writer to discuss something in further detail. (In the previous anadiplitic sentence we are not only told that there are several approaches but also something about them.)

I find that if writers never discuss anything in any more detail than anything else the writing becomes quite flat. Nothing stands out and nothing grabs the readers’ interest.

Do you all advise using anadiplosis or do you have other techniques to improve flow?

With very best wishes,

Susan

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