Always avoid alliteration.
Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
Avoid cliches like the plague—they're old hat.
Employ the vernacular.
Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
Parenthetical words however must be enclosed in commas.
It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
Contractions aren't necessary.
Do not use a foreign word when there is an adequate English quid pro quo.
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.
Understatement is always best.
Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
One-word sentences? Eliminate. Always!
Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
The passive voice should not be used.
Don't repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
Who needs rhetorical questions?
Be more or less specific.
Don't repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before. .
Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors.
 Mandy Thorne · Sun Oct 14, 2007 @ 04:53am · 1 Comments |
