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Don't Outline -- Strategize! Part 2 | — Tue, 27 May 2014 18:40:15 +0000

[…] writers think about the planning stage of the writing process. I suggested that we think of it as strategizing, just as a general would plan the strategy for a military […]

Comment on Getting Your Writing To Flow, Part 1 by Getting Your Writing To Flow, Part 2: Details |

Getting Your Writing To Flow, Part 2: Details | — Tue, 27 May 2014 15:31:16 +0000

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How To Make Your Paragraphs Flow | — Tue, 27 May 2014 15:26:39 +0000

[…] have been working at the sentence-to-sentence level of flow. We have considered the importance of establishing continuity between sentences and presenting plenty of details. Our overriding concern has been for what our […]

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Seek And Destroy Your Writing Style Enemies | — Tue, 27 May 2014 15:16:47 +0000

[…] Habits. Passive voice is the bane of English teachers everywhere. Once a writer has gone on autopilot, passive voice tends to pervade writing. I frequently see it, for example, in first-year […]

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Seek And Destroy Your Writing Style Enemies | — Tue, 27 May 2014 15:16:31 +0000

[…] previous entries in this series focused on ways that structure affects flow. I provided tips for structuring sentences and paragraphs (both a paragraph’s topic/wrap-up sentence and its mid-paragraph details) to […]

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Getting Your Writing To Flow, Part 5: Tone | — Tue, 27 May 2014 15:12:40 +0000

[…] in “Getting Your Writing to Flow” (in case you’ve missed them, here are parts one, two, three, and four) focuses on an issue that is at once more global and more local than any of […]

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Become An Academic Writing Rockstar | — Tue, 27 May 2014 15:00:41 +0000

[…] The problem is that there are many kinds of writing situations: creative writing is distinct from academic writing, and academic writing is distinct from professional (business) writing. Each kind of writing has its own criteria for quality, and many of them do not overlap. (For example, I recently devoted an entire post to demystifying criteria for one specific kind of writing: the summary.) […]

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Building Relationships With Your Readers | — Tue, 27 May 2014 14:54:50 +0000

[…] It took me a five-post series to explore flow (In case you missed them, here they are: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ), and I certainly could write five […]

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Building Relationships With Your Readers | — Tue, 27 May 2014 14:54:35 +0000

[…] to pin down. It took me a five-post series to explore flow (In case you missed them, here they are: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ), and I certainly could write five […]

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Well Dressed Writing: Tips For Effective Page Design | — Tue, 27 May 2014 14:51:29 +0000

[…] the reader’s attention to your document’s main points and minimizing the need for weakifiers. Finally, the aesthetic component of solid design can amplify a reader’s positive reaction to […]