Writing

Practical things you can do to make your text clearer.

Open two copies of the same document and put them side-by-side. Edit in one, while referring to the other.

Rewrite your first draft using this rule: no significant words from the first draft are allowed in the second draft.

If your sentence has more than two commas in it, it’s probably too long.

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“The trick to writing well is to...

– take long sentences and make them short

– take confusing ideas and make them clear

– take unrelated concepts and make them related

...without losing the main idea in the process.”