Here are some handy ways you can improve your writing skills: * Avoid Alliteration. Always. * Prepositions are not words to end sentences with. * Avoid cliches like the plague. (Theyre old hat.) * Employ the vernacular. * Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc. * Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. * It is wrong to ever split an infinitive. * Contractions arent necessary. * Foreign words and phrases are not apropos. * One should never generalize. * Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. * Comparisons are as bad as cliches. * Dont be redundant; dont use more words than necessary; its highly superfluous. * Profanity sucks. * Be more or less specific. * Understatement is always best. * Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement. * One word sentences? Eliminate. * Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake. * The passive voice is to be avoided. * Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms. * Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed. * Who needs rhetorical questions? * Parenthetical words however must be enclosed in commas. * It behooves you to avoid archaic expressions. * Avoid archaeic spellings too. * Dont repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before. * Dont use commas, that, are not, necessary. * Do not use hyperbole; not one in a million can do it effectively. * Never use a big word when a diminutive alternative would suffice. * Subject and verb always has to agree. * Placing a comma between subject and predicate, is not correct. * Use youre spell chekker to avoid mispeling and to catch typograhpical errers. * Dont repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before. * Use the apostrophe in its proper place and omit it when its not needed. * Dont never use no double negatives. * Poofread carefully to see if you any words out. * Hopefully, you will use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them. * Eschew obfuscation. * No sentence fragments. * Dont indulge in sesquipedalian lexicological constructions. * A writer must not shift your point of view. * Dont overuse exclamation marks!! * Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of 10 or more words, to their antecedents. * Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided. * If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. * Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. * Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing. * Always pick on the correct idiom. * The adverb always follows the verb. * Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors. * If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be by rereading and editing. * And always be sure to finish what
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