Tips to Imporve Your Writing

1. Avoid alliteration. Always


2. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.


3. Eschew ampersands and abbreviations, etc.


4. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.


5. Contractions aren't necessary.


6. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.


7. One should never generalize.


8. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said," I hate quotations. Tell me what you know".


9. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.


10. Be more or less specific.


11. One-word sentences? Eliminate.


12. The passive voice is to be avoided.


13. Who needs rhetorical questions?


14. Exaggerations are a billion times worse than understatement.


15. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.

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-Emmie Schultz