Writing Workout

Part IV in Technical Communication Series. Get ready to sweat! »
Mikinzie Stuart

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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