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Michael BeckerWriting advice for college students (and even high school students) who tend to pad their writing with unneeded words just to fill out a paper's length requirement.
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The question of whether to use loaded words or not depends on what is being written. The scientist, the scholar, try to avoid them; for the poet, the advertising writer, the public speaker, they are standard equipment. But every writer should take care that they do not substitute for thought. If you write, "Anyone who thinks that is nothing but a Socialist (or Communist or capitalist)" you have said nothing except that you don't like people who think that, and such remarks are effective only with the most naive readers. It is always a bad mistake to think your readers more naive than they really are.
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sean hobsonFreshman composition, like everything else, has its share of fashions. In the 195Os, when this article was written, the most popular argument raging among student essayists was the proposed abolition of college football. With the greater social consciousness of the early '60s, the topic of the day became the morality of capital punishment. Topics may change, but the core principles of good writing remain constant, and this essay as become something of a minor classic in explaining them. Be concrete, says Roberts; get to the point; express your opinions colorfully. Refreshingly, he even practices what he preaches. His essay is humorous, direct, and almost salty in summarizing the working habits that all good prose writers must cultivate. -- Editors' note from JoRay McCuen & Anthony C. Winkler's Readings for Writers , 3rd ed., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980
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m cassimatisFast driving is dangerous > In my opinion, fast driving would seem to be rather dangerous. /y eh/ padding bcs anxiety word count + hedgin bcs timid. //+ thas notion th writing shld sound like this, wordy, unplain
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david stongClassic; have your writers read this. Fire those that NEED to.
communication language essay reference writing Bullshit delicious
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Nacho Caballeroost circumstances you will find that those cases of writing which contain too many instances of words like these will in this and other aspects have factors leading to unsatisfactory relationships with the reader resulting in unfavorable attitudes on his
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Ordizia JakintzaArtikulu bitxia. Nola idatzi edo hitz egin luze, baina ezer esan gabe.
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