to write better you need

to write better you need

1. CONCISION

   • less passive voice
   • less words "keep it simple"
     • don't state what the reader can infer
     • say something concrete and informative
   • active verbs in active voice "he ran"

2. CLARITY

   • make your narrative characters the subjects of sentence
   • choose verbs over nominalizations
   • linking verbs overuses prepositional phrase
   • Empty Verbs
     • "there are"
     • "it has"

3. FLOW

   • Motion from place to place A to B
   • use pronouns and other pointers
   • use punch lines
     • Start with material that is familliar and end with suprising one
       • cosistency
       • predictable location
     • use to bind paragraphs - chain structure
   • use conjunctions and other linking words
     • FANBOYS
     • "Furthermore, although"
   • metadiscourse
     • What direction the argument is taking
       • Continuity "also", contrast, time, conclusion

4. ELEGANCE

   • What we say/ How to say
   • historical present
   • appositive
   • simmetry
     • parallelism
       • coordination "FANBOYS"
         • balance "meaning"
         • chiasmus
           • correlative conjuctions
             • neither, nor ... not only
       • use the same structure to highliht their similarity
         • "what you see is what you get"
   • tricolon
     • like ... like ... like
   • metaphor

5. USAGE

   • radicals "purity"
     • conservative "efficency"
   • real rules "double negatives" "double comparative" "
     • folklore "never starts a sentence with because"
       • optional rules "never end a sentence with preposition"
         • special formality "sexism"

6. COHERENCE

   • consistency
   • topic
     • issue
       • theme
         • related words
       • a point in question
     • global concept
   • Thematic strings
   • revision and diagnosis
     • introduce an theme without development
       • don't anticipate a theme that you will develop
         • terms without any realtionship
   • predictable location