Fellowes (2007) agrees that, "being able to manipulate words and clauses in a text is beneficial to meaning-making function of
writing" (p. 2). Kratzke also feels that learning about ellipsis is a basic principle. Ellipses are the words dropped in sentences because people speak so fast. "Word order often means no words at all, sentence elements dropped because we speak so quickly or wish to eliminate
redundancy" (Kratzke, 2003, p. 2). Recognizing this principle shows students that sometimes writing is better if those elements that are taken out in speech are put back in writing. Kratzke also brings out what he calls restriction or punctuation, which gives meaning to writing (2003). Ayoob (1999) agrees that punctuation is necessary,