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How to write good ...

Sunday, September 23, 2012

1. Avoid alliteration. Always.

2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.

3. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)

4. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.

5. One should never generalise.

6. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.

7. Be more or less specific.

8. Sentence fragments? Eliminate.

9. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.

10. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.

11. Who needs rhetorical questions?


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LORRAINE10141 9/29/2012 5:26PM

    Very clever.

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TEALHAWK 9/28/2012 10:42AM

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JUNIAATROME 9/27/2012 1:36PM

    Ha ha - be more or less specific!

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SALDAL1 9/26/2012 3:57PM

    Ha!

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WONDERFUL2BME 9/26/2012 12:11AM

    Love it!

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KIWIANN 9/24/2012 8:00PM

    emoticon Thanks for sharing!!

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PATTYKLAVER 9/24/2012 9:01AM

    It's amazing how many people have forgotten what they have learned (or not learned) in school. Thanks for the reminders.

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MAYBER 9/23/2012 9:26PM

    Great ideas what would our world be like without "Facebook"
One day at a time
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DEBBYFROMMT 9/23/2012 1:53PM

    ROFLMAOPIMP!

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ALEXSGIRL1 9/23/2012 10:12AM

    thanks but we must remember we are all not all great authors .but we can learn from this

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BHOLMAN1005 9/23/2012 9:54AM

    Remembering that when writing papers for school helps the grades.

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DARLY55 9/23/2012 9:43AM

    Thanks, you sound like my fifth grade teacher, Sister Mary Agnes. emoticon

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WINEALITTLE 9/23/2012 8:26AM

    Excellent! Have you read "Eats, Shoots & Leaves"? I got it for my high school graduate, and it's a hoot.
Keep bloggin,
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JANET552 9/23/2012 7:41AM

    Love it!! Thanks for sharing.

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TATTER3 9/23/2012 7:13AM

  Oh I love this. I taught English in a past life at a near-by college and met each one of these 'rules' face to face! Keep Sparkin'!!

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SPARKL3 9/23/2012 5:16AM

    What also grates on my nerves is when people misuse the words "your" and "you're" and "its" and "it's" in their writing. There's a lot of that going around these days, unfortunately. emoticon

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HAWAIIANMAMMA 9/23/2012 2:44AM

    I am.such a grammar/writing Nazi. This was fantastic!

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