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Good Writing
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Good Writing
When you are posting something online it is important that you express yourself clearly so others will understand what you are saying. Here are some suggestions that might help you in this:

1. Always avoid alliteration.

2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.

3. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)

4. Employ the vernacular

5. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.

6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.

7. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.

8. Contractions aren't necessary.

9. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.

10. One should never generalize.

11. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Emerson said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

12. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.

13. Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.

14. Be more or less specific.

15. Understatement is always best.

16. One word sentences? Eliminate.

17. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.

18. The passive voice is to be avoided.

19. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquilisms.

20. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.

21. Who needs rhetorical questions?

22. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
His invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Romans 1:20 ESV

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RE: Good Writing
23. Above all....stop saying Goddidit.
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#3
RE: Good Writing
Thanks for the advice, theophilus, but I think that most of us are already quite capable of expressing ourselves in English prose.

24. Don't turn up in a discussion forum and immediately start lecturing people. Especially when its completely unnecessary.
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
Mikhail Bakunin

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything
Friedrich Nietzsche
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RE: Good Writing
(June 5, 2010 at 6:58 am)Caecilian Wrote: Thanks for the advice, theophilus, but I think that most of us are already quite capable of expressing ourselves in English prose.

24. Don't turn up in a discussion forum and immediately start lecturing people. Especially when its completely unnecessary.

I think it was a joke.
Read it again and think of humour.



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RE: Good Writing
I think it was all quite witty really Smile

I may be lame. But I like lamers so Tongue

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