1. EFFECTIVE SENTENCES

2. Effective Sentences Developing a Clear Style
Developing a Concise Style
Developing a Lively Style
Developing an Emphatic Style
Summary

3. Developing a Clear Style
Don’t pad your paragraphs with sentences that run in circles, leading nowhere.
Make your sentences specific.

4. Fix major sentence errors.
Pay attention to word order.

5. Part One | The Basics of the Short Essay
Clear, straightforward sentences keep readers from feeling as though they are lost in an Escher maze.
Convex and Concave, 1955, by M. C. Escher

6. Developing a Concise Style
Avoid deadwood constructions.

7. Avoid redundancy.
When possible, use the active voice rather than the passive voice.

8. Developing a Lively Style
Use specific, descriptive verbs.
Use specific, precise modifiers that help the reader see, hear, or feel what you are describing.

9. Avoid overuse of any one kind of construction in the same sentence.
Don’t change your point of view between or within sentences.

10. Developing an Emphatic Clear Style
Word Order
Coordination
Subordination

11. Summary
Here is a brief summary of what you should remember about writing effective sentences: