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Therefore ask yourself some basic questions before you start. For example: “In what capacity am I going to address the reader?” (Reporter? Provider of information? Average man or woman?) “What pronoun and tense am I going to use?” “What style?” (Impersonal reportorial? Personal but formal? Personal and casual?) “What attitude am I going to take tow
... See moreWilliam Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Always look for ways to convey your information in narrative form.
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
do not use periods for commas.
William Strunk JR. and E.B. White • The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
Writing and thinking and learning were the same process.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
As your reading becomes increasingly specialized, you enter a more focused conversation. As you identify the scholars contributing to the conversation, do not be afraid to look up their web sites, send them e-mail, and ask them for their current work.
Peg Boyle Single • Demystifying Dissertation Writing: A Streamlined Process from Choice of Topic to Final Text
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Justin Torres • Blackouts: A Novel
You’ve been taught, too, that writing is the business of depositing meaning to be extracted later, That a sentence is the transcription of a thought, the husk of an idea, Valuable only for what it transmits or contains, not for what it is. You’ve been taught to overlook the character of the prose in front of you in order to get at its meaning. You
... See moreVerlyn Klinkenborg • Several Short Sentences About Writing
Things to Look for in Paragraphs