Archives for the ‘Writing Basics’ Category
- Who Determines Language Standards?
- Take a Stand for Language Standards
- The Writer’s Diet
- 10 Tips for Clean, Clear Writing
- 3 Ways to Avoid Confusing Your Readers
- The Promise and Peril of Editing in Proof
- Literal Meanings and Pedantic Precision
- 3 Tips for Producing Consistent Written Content
- Writing Contests and Competitions
- Assure—I Mean, Ensure—Good Writing
- A Basis for More Concise Wording
- 5 Examples of Confused Sentences
- Is Your Style Trim and Fit?
- How Long Should a Sentence Be?
- Five Writing Tics to Delete in Revision
- Slideshow English
- Song Lyrics and Standard English
- Pidgin and Creole Languages
- More than One Kind of Irony
- Ignorance or Sincerity?
- Lazy Word Choice
- 3 Tips for Careful Writers
- Non-standard English and the New Tribalism
- Fight the Good Fight Against Creeping Errors
- 5 Funny Figures of Speech
- 7 Proofreading Steps
- How to Promote Literacy and Skilled Communication
- 20 Strategies for Writing in Plain Language
- Does Good Writing Matter?
- Which Writers Inspire You?
- Take Nothing for Granted
- One Word Can Mar Your Meaning
- College-Essay Websites Get a Failing Grade
- 7 Tips for Editing to Improve Usage
- 10 Tips About Basic Writing Competency
- The Facts Are Good Enough
- Twelve Non-Negotiable Elements of Force in Writing
- Good Advice About Bad Writing
- Breaking Muphry’s Law
- What’s the Reading Level of Your Writing?
- 50 Tips on How to Write Good
- Do You Look Like a Writer?
- The Winning Formula for Writing Success
- A Writing-Competence Matrix
- 5 More Tips for Cleaning Up Your Writing Right Now
- 5 Tips for Cleaning Up Your Writing Right Now
- Principles of Plain English
- A Short Quiz About Emphasis
- What the Hell Do You Do About Profanity?
- The Writing Process Is a Numbers Game
- 50 Redundant Phrases to Avoid
- 30 Wordy Phrases Beginning with “In”
- 5 Ways to Keep Parallel Lists on Track
- When It Comes to Cursive, Is Handwriting on the Wall?
- Why There’ll Never Be a Perfect Time to Write
- Tips for Attaining Editorial Consistency
- Five Reasons Why Your Writing Matters (Even if No-One Will Take You Seriously)
- 7 Sound Techniques for Effective Writing
- Publishing Should Be About Prose, Not Product
- Orwell’s Writing Rules Are Made to Be Broken
- Linguistic Register and Code Switching
- Writing About History Is Writing Toward Truth
- A Case For Slow Writing
- 7 Solutions for Repetitive Sentence Structure
- Seven Ways to Build Up Your Writing Confidence
- All About Glosses, or Brief Definitions
- How to Respond to a Request for a Writing Critique
- Teen Writing Tips: 7 Things You Can Do This Spring Break to Hone Your Craft
- 5 Ways to Evaluate Your Writing Group
- 7 Agenda Items for Your Writing Group’s First Meeting
- 10 Steps for Editing Your Own Writing
- How to Start a Writing Group
- 5 Reasons to Start a Writing Group
- How To Become A Writer
- 12 Tips for Clipping Unnecessary Words
- 5 Keys to Better Sentence Flow
- 7 Sentences Energized by Elegant Variation
- 7 Rules For Formatting Lists
- 10 Writing Exercises to Tighten Your Writing
- Writing Prompts 101
- All About Abbreviations
- The Writer’s 5 Ws
- Parallel Construction
- Are You Cutting With Shears or a Chainsaw?
- To Outline or Not to Outline, That is the Question
- “About” and “For” with Adjectives
- But, it’s in the Dictionary!
- Warning, This Post May Be Stolen
- Proofreading from Hard Copy
- How to Personalize Your Revision Checklist
- Gentlemen, Choose Your Weapons
- Literary Essays and School Essays
- Divine Passive Voice
- Critical Analysis of Your Own Writing
- The Truth of Writing
- Finding Time to Write in High School
- Writing – Art or Craft?
- Writing with Rhythm
- The Writing Process
- Online Style Guides
- Why Can’t Style Manuals Just Agree?
- Writing the Century
- Satire, Parody, and other Forms of Ridicule
- How Many Sentences in a Paragraph?
- Why Are Dirty Jokes Funny?
- Be Your Own Ideal Reader
- Everybody is a Native Speaker, Nobody is a Native Writer
- Write About What You Know
- Your Ideal Reader
- Setting Writing Targets
- How to Generate Hundreds of Writing Ideas
- Elegant Variation
- Whom Are You Writing For Again?
- How to Revise, Edit and Proofread Your Writing
- 10 Ways to Find 10 Minutes to Write
- You Are What You Read
- Minimise Distractions When Writing: 4 Practical Tips
- Good Writing “A Matter of Opinion”?
- How To Write Every Day (and why you should)
- Five Ways to Write Faster
- Using the Active Voice to Strengthen Your Writing
- 50 Open Source Resources for Writers
- Five Words You Can Cut
- Web Usability Revisited
- Break Writer’s Block: Choose Your Audience
- Break Writer’s Block: Don’t Begin at the Beginning
- Whom Are You Writing For?
- Review Writing Lessons
- Writing About History
- 34 Writing Tips That Will Make You a Better Writer
- Resonating with your reader
- 7 Ways to Kick Start the Writing Habit
- Is There Really Room for Error in Writing?
- Can You Speak Your Readers’ Language?
- Seven Writing Tips from Stephen King
- Four Tips For Successful Web Writing
- 8 Proofreading Tips And Techniques
- Why We Need Paragraphs
- Writing for Your Audience
- Write First, Edit Later
- Passive vs. Active Voice
- The Dummy Subject
- Orwell: Timeless Guidelines for Writers
- The Impotence of Proofreading
- How to Edit a Sentence
- Vivid Language Paints a Picture
- “Putting on Airs” or Expressing One’s Thoughts?
- Breaking the Lockjam and Buttoning Down the Hatches
- How to Bypass Your Internal Editor
- Voice: An Opportunity to Scream without Opening Your Mouth
- Write Super-Fast
- Write To Be Scanned
- Beware the shifting tense
- How to Start Writing When You Don’t Feel Like It
- Say What?
- Big Words Make You Sound Smart, Don’t They?
- Eliminating Superfluous Phrases
- The Inverted Pyramid
- Audience is Everything