06-29-2006, 08:44 AM
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Location: New England
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I'm more familiar with an older version of this; I think it was even in Strunk & White:
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1. Always check your speling carefully.
2. Your a careful writer! Check to see if you any words out of a sentence.
3. Always punctuate, appropriately taking special care in the use of commas
4. Avoid tautology, that is, repetitive unnecessary and redundant words surplus to requirements.
5. Make sure that you had noun/verb agreement so that all tenses is correct.
6. When your writing, its vital to use apostrophes’ correctly.
7. There is a distinct risk that if you let your sentences ramble on through many sub-clauses and parentheses (necessary, as these may be to qualify what you want to say) you may make your readers forget — in their effort to grasp the drift of the sentence — what it was you began your sentence by saying.
8. Never abbrev.
9. Basically, you should look to express yourself clearly, hopefully avoiding clichés and jargon, as far as meaningful discourse.
10. Avoid mixed metaphors, so that your readers do not go off the rails and lose sight of the goal posts while taking a leap in the dark into a Pandora’s box of red herrings.
11. If your brain comes up with an ambiguous sentence, get rid of it and replace it with a better one.
12. Having eventually discovered how to put words together, the sentence should not have hanging phrases.
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