writing workout * express yourself! Accuracy Clarity Simplicity Readability CHALLENGE How well can you express youself? = expression ideas + Communication * clutter CHALLENGE Cut it out. Do your words serve a purpose? assistance numerous facilitate individual remainder initial implement sufficient attempt referred to as long vs short avoid inflation with the possible of exception of due to the fact that lacked the ability to until such time as for the purpose of simplify, simplify * Writing Cohesively Known-New Contract aka "Ask Mom" organizing ideas or information that communicate what the audience already knows before introducing something new. WHY? Introduce Remind Familiarize Provide synonyms or examples Reinforce initial explanation Use it to introduce other new information BOTTOM LINE Your message will get ignored. * voices to shun Flat Dull Boring Fuzzy Inflated Jargon More dramatic! More adjectives! More detailed! More insight! The creative genuis The official The Sleepwalker The clunker No rhythm Monotonous Repetitive CHALLENGE admit it. writer editor audience CARS grammar trap * the editor * escape the focus on the BIG picture One function of examination coordination would be the implementation of a revision of the examination schedule to guarantee that examiners scheduled for the same examination were free at the hour the examination was scheduled. Remembering dead people we have known reminds us of who we are. They also make us remember that we will all die one day as well which is a fact human beings generally forget whenever possible. This has been remarked on by many writers and thinkers like the French author Montaigne. Across the room sat Aunt Marney, her careworn, calloused hands crossed in her denim-aproned lap with a resignation born of half a century of stubborn toil on the ingrateful land, her head inclined at a weary, humble angle above a wrinkled breast once fruitful with milk for her abundant, rosy, clamoring offspring, now dry and barren as the untilled acres that surrounded her shanty. The Task Force is also concerned that it provide the basis for the faculty of this campus to govern itself, rather than being governed by others less understanding of the nature of the University. Grammar Punctuation Usage CHALLENGE Spot the fake. arrangement, relationships, snd functions of words and ways they are put together to form phrases, clauses, or sentences signals that help readers to understand the ideas in a passage the way in which words and phrases are actually used, spoken, or written Never use a split infinitive in a sentence. Never end a sentence in a preposition. Never use "they/ them/ their" as a singular pronoun. That's all, folks! Use apostrophes in possesives and contractions, but not plurals. Avoid using dangling modifiers. Always use commas when the sentence can be understood as having more than one meaning. Define Brief reminder of meaning Consider it known information
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