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I would put brackets around every component in a piece of writing that wasn’t doing useful work.
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
repetition First, you must cut out all extraneous repetition of words and phrases.
Walter Mosley • This Year You Write Your Novel
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Regina Casaleggio • 1 card
Weaver was a professor of rhetoric.
Richard M. Weaver • Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
do not use periods for commas.
William Strunk JR. and E.B. White • The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
On Writing Well
Solomon Muigai • 1 card
Bryan A. Garner’s Garner’s Modern English Usage, also known to many in the editing world as the bible
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
Every word that serves no function, every long word that could be a short word, every adverb that carries the same meaning that’s already in the verb, every passive construction that leaves the reader unsure of who is doing what—these are the thousand and one adulterants that weaken the strength of a sentence.
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Every word that serves no function, every long word that could be a short word, every adverb that carries the same meaning that’s already in the verb, every passive construction that leaves the reader unsure of who is doing what—these are the thousand and one adulterants that weaken the strength of a sentence. And they usually occur in proportion t
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