Are your sentences too long? Do you overuse adverbs? Do you use "that" to refer to a person? Betsy Mikel lists 25 tips for finding and fixing those flaws and others in your writing. An example: "In about 5 percent of your sentences (total guess from the grammar police), 'that' makes your idea easier to understand. In the other 95 percent, get rid of it. 'I decided that journalism was a good career for me,' reads better as, 'I decided journalism was a good career for me.'"
September 27, 2014
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