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Title: What is parallelism?
Text: Parallelism occurs when words and sentences are balanced. Balance means that the words and sentences are structured in a similar fashion.
Title: Why does parallelism matter?
Text: Parallelism is important because it controls the auditory impression of your writing. If the writing sounds clunky, like a car with a lot of loose and disconnected parts, the ideas in the writing are more likely to be obscured.
Title: How does parallelism work?
Text: Words and sentences become parallel when we clean them up. We inspect words for similar affixes and sentences for balanced, equally weighted phrases.