Do you tell your readers what to think?
Do you tell your readers what to think?
Submitted by Cybrarian on Tue, 06/24/2014 - 07:40
Retired magazine editor Jack Limpert discusses another bad writing habit — sentences that do too much explaining: "I edited several writers who were savvy researchers-reporters and were good at explanatory pieces," Limpert writes. "Their problem was they couldn't resist scattering topic sentences throughout their stories. A high school or college English teacher had drummed into them the need for topic sentences to help the reader understand what he's reading."
Do you tell your readers what to think?
Submitted by Cybrarian on Tue, 06/24/2014 - 07:40
Retired magazine editor Jack Limpert discusses another bad writing habit — sentences that do too much explaining: "I edited several writers who were savvy researchers-reporters and were good at explanatory pieces," Limpert writes. "Their problem was they couldn't resist scattering topic sentences throughout their stories. A high school or college English teacher had drummed into them the need for topic sentences to help the reader understand what he's reading."