Archive for the ‘English writing’ Category

4 Types Of Weak Verbs To Avoid

Friday, January 13th, 2012

The stronger the verbs you use, the more meaningful your sentences become.    Unfortunately, too many folks are too accustomed to using weak verbs that they end up littering their writing with them.

7 Tips To Quickly Improve Your Online Writing

Thursday, December 29th, 2011

Writing stuff for online?  Whether you’re working on a blog, a sales landing page or an informational resource, here are ten things you can implement in your online writing to make it more effective.

How To Write Loose And Periodic Sentences

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Loose sentences are structures with a main clause, followed by one or more elaborating elements.  Periodic sentences go in reverse, presenting the elaborating elements before the main clause.   Both structures are useful not just for varying your sentences — they allow you to produce distinct effects, too.

Five Rules Of Writing You Can Start Breaking Right Now

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

English writing has many rules.  Some of them are hard rules that have been with the medium for as long as it existed.  Others are guidelines of past times that can now be broken as the language has evolved.  The “rules” below belong to that latter set:

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