Writing concise sentences. Concise sentences Redundancy and Redundancy – 12 p.m. noon, end result, advance planning, true facts, successful achievements.

Slides:

Advertisements

Similar presentations

Redundancy and Wordiness in Writing. Some Famous or Infamous Examples of Redundancy "I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the.

Advertisements

Writing for the workplace

Sentence Blending and Variation. Start with two simple sentences. My friend likes to play a game. The game is soccer.

o Wordiness occurs when a writer uses words or phrases that seem to modify a noun but do not actually add to the meaning of the sentence. o Although such.

© Capital Community College Introduction A sentence fragment tries its best to be a sentence, but it just can’t make it. It’s missing something. Often,

Improving Sentence Concision and Coherence. How does making sentence concise and coherent improve your argument?

RELATIVE CLAUSES. The relative pronoun: A relative clause is used to form one sentence from two separate sentence. Who → is used for person as a subject.

S1 – Comma Splices (pages H-5 to H-6) In a comma splice, two independent clauses are improperly joined by a comma Tuesday, 11/11 Grammar Warm-Up: Lab Book.

It isn’t a good idea to write academic essays in a casual style. Serious Voice If all you have ever been exposed to is movies, TV, magazines etc, then.

Your Reactions to the Editing Assignment? What was hard? What was easy? Was it a useful exercise? – Is there a way for me to tailor the assignment to make.

Huron Writing Skills Centre

Wordy Sentences Long sentences are not necessarily wordy, nor are short sentences always concise. A sentence is wordy if it can be tightened without loss.

Proofreading & Revising

Writing Concise Sentences By Worth Weller. In a Nutshell Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary.

PREPOSITION CHECK Circle the preposition and underline the preposition phrase.

Avoiding Wordiness.

Do Now: Eliminate the unnecessary words in the following sentences. The number in parentheses is a suggested maximum number of words for each sentence.

III. Style 3.2 Concise Sentences (not short, but not padded)

1. 2 nd person point of view. In other words, do not use “you”, “your”, “you’re”, or “yourself”. About the only way this point of view works is in children’s.

The means by which you can and should edit out extra, unnecessary words, while making sure that your audience is understanding what you wrote, or.

 Getting to the point promptly can help you become a clearer thinker and a more engaging writer.

Hacker and Sommers, The Bedford Handbook, 8th ed. (Boston: Bedford, 2010) Slide 1 of 3 Eliminating Wordiness Clutter is the disease of American writing.

G0472 Week 9 : “ WORD CHOICE IN EDITING “ 1. Learning Outcomes Students are expected to be able to use editing system to find and edit incorrect words.

C’s of Style It has often been said there’s so much to be read you never can cram all those thoughts in your head. So the writer who breeds More words.

Instructor Availability AIM address: EleBranch Office Hours: Mondays & Thursdays 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. And by appointment.

How to Write Business Letters Technical Writing Lesson 3

Write Tight How to Make Your Writing More Concise and Precise.

Characteristics of Professional/Academic Writing Shelli Meade.

Language affects how we communicate with our audience. If the sentences are confusing, then meaning is affected and we don’t achieve our purpose as effectively.

Writing Wednesday, Oct 21st.  Dear Prime Minister of Canada (Justin Trudeau), I would like to know… You have 20 minutes….

What did Christopher Vogler, author of The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, say about the connection between the heroic journey and writing?

Wordiness MENUEXIT Your writing should be as clear and concise as possible. Eliminate unnecessary words and phrases. Continue…

Welcome to CM107 College Composition I Unit 3 Seminar With Emily Lundin Please feel free to chat until we get started at the top of the hour.

What is the difference between a clause and a phrase? ◦ Define and/or give an example of independent, dependent/subordinate clauses (lit book pg 929)

Business Writing By Bal Abdul. What are the different types of business writing? When should you write a memo, letter, or an ? When is it appropriate.

Review of Unit 1  What is the “Call to Adventure”?  How is the writer’s journey similar to the hero’s journey?  Can you remember at least three tips.

Review of Unit 1  What is the “Call to Adventure”?  How is the writer’s journey similar to the hero’s journey?  Can you remember at least three tips.

College Essay Writing Revising Time. Agenda for Day 4 Do Now: complete the handout on Diction and prepare to share Focus Lesson: Revising Exercises- continuing.

Chapter 23. When you emphasize the main ideas in your sentences, you hold and channel reader’s attention.

Five Ways to Cut the Clutter Source: Richard Nordquist.

Review of Unit 1  What is the “Call to Adventure”?  How is the writer’s journey similar to the hero’s journey?  Can you remember at least three tips.

Wordiness MENUEXIT Your writing should be as clear and concise as possible. Eliminate unnecessary words and phrases. Continue…

THESIS STATEMENTS HOW TO WRITE EFFECTIVE. THE THESIS: WHAT IS IT? A statement that identifies the topic of your paper and your point or claim about that.

Welcome to CM 107 Unit 2: Seminar with Nick Pincumbe  Feel free to chat and get acquainted until you hear my voice near the top of the hour. Once the.

Prewriting. What is Prewriting? Prewriting is a technique writers use when they get started. It is a way the writers use to warm up their brain before.

Seminar 2 Concise Writing Please feel free to chat until class begins. Please be sure you can hear the music. If you can’t please post a comment letting.

Review of Unit 1  What is the “Call to Adventure”?  How is the writer’s journey similar to the hero’s journey?  Can you remember at least three tips.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing.

Concision Tight, dawg..

McGraw Hill Handbook Chapter 38

“Vigorous writing is concise

Creating Memorable Prose

Making your writing readable

Word Choice W1-W5 Pages

Writing concisely and accurately

Minimizing the tremendous cost of meetings

1. What do pronouns do?.

English II Notes: Redundancy and Wordiness in Writing

Introduction A sentence fragment tries its best to be a sentence, but it just can’t make it. It’s missing something. Often, it’s missing a verb or part.

Concise Writing NO MATTER WHAT YOUR DISCIPLINE

PHRASES & CLAUSES GRAMMAR REVIEW #3.

Subject’s, Predicates & Sentences

Grammartastic Lessons

Introduction A sentence fragment tries its best to be a sentence, but it just can’t make it. It’s missing something. Often, it’s missing a verb or part.

Introduction A sentence fragment tries its best to be a sentence, but it just can’t make it. It’s missing something. Often, it’s missing a verb or part.

MENU EXIT Wordiness Your writing should be as clear and concise as possible. Eliminate unnecessary words and phrases. Continue…

Introduction A sentence fragment tries its best to be a sentence, but it just can’t make it. It’s missing something. Often, it’s missing a verb or part.

Presentation transcript:

Writing concise sentences

Concise sentences Redundancy and Redundancy – 12 p.m. noon, end result, advance planning, true facts, successful achievements Cut out useless introductory phrases – With reference to your question, I think we should go on Thursday. – It seems unnecessary to point out that it is now raining.

Concise sentences Reduce clauses to phrases – The University of Arkansas, which was founded in 1871, is the state’s flagship campus. – Founded in 1871, the University of Arkansas is the state’s flagship campus. Reduce phrases to single words – Citizens who knew what was going on voted him out of office. – Knowledgeable citizens voted him out of office.

Concise sentences Circumlocution or “talking around” – in (the) possession of has, have – ahead of scheduleearly – give rise tocause – during the time thatwhile – in the event thatif – in this day and agetoday – the reason why is thatbecause – this is a topic thatthis topic

Concise sentence exercise Avoid expletive constructions – It is to be expected that politicians are wordy. Politicians are expected to be wordy. – There are some writers who cannot help being wordy. Some writers cannot help being wordy. Eliminate Clichés – Dog-eat-dog world (competitive) – busy as a bee (busy)

Concise sentences Avoid using ‘that’ when possible – Here’s the shirt (that) I just bought. – I believe (that) I will learn a lot in this class. – We thought (that) the game started at 2 p.m. – Grammar is one subject (that) I need to study.