Sentence examples for instruct the reader from inspiring English sources

Do they instruct the reader in some important way?

People don't notice their everyday surroundings and daily routine, so when writers describe them it can sound as if they're trying too hard to instruct the reader.

To write persuasive fiction, let the reader understand a character through her thoughts or behaviour; do not instruct the reader by summarising her personality.

I would have written a description of this at each of his appearances, but ultimately I felt it would simply save time and space to instruct the reader about making this assumption ahead of time.

Though intended to instruct the reader to turn away from the sensuous life and follow the Buddha's path, the work is at its best in descriptions of that very life.

But in writing about food I found my voice, and discovered that a recipe does more than instruct the reader, but is a way of addressing life, and celebrating it.

She also instructs the reader to drink the concoction on the night of an earthquake.

DeLillo seems to be instructing the reader: "The nature of the film permitted total concentration and also depended on it".

He instructs the reader in what he calls 'the First Law of Petro-Politics', which says that when the price of oil goes down, freedom goes up.

But then, in at least three of the novels, Hill herself suddenly shouts through at the end, with an added postscript instructing the reader.

In your latest book, "Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Sewing and Fabric Crafts," there's a section that instructs the reader on how to turn her husband's old shirts into decorative pillows.