Teaching writing

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Acjade

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Teaching writing
« on: February 04, 2008, 01:57:55 AM »
1.Allways use a spel cheker.

2.Avoid long complex sentences which go on and on without using any punctuation to break up the long sentences as this can lead to confusion as people read your text

3.Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.) (You mark my words)
 
4.Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.

5.Employ the vernacular.

6.Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.

7.Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary (and unwanted).

8.It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.

9.Contractions aren't necessary.

10.Avoid alliteration. Always.

11.Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.

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

13.Comparisons are as bad as cliches.

14.One should never generalize.

15.Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
 
16.Be more or less specific.
 
17.One-word sentences? Eliminate.

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

19.The passive voice is to be avoided.

20.Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.

21.Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
 
22.Exaggeration is a million times worse than understatement.

23.Who needs rhetorical questions?

24.Understatement is always best.

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Re: Teaching writing
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2008, 03:16:18 AM »
LO akakakakak VE this post!!  Thank you, AcJade agagagagag
Moderation....in most things...

Re: Teaching writing
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2008, 04:22:35 AM »
18.Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.

Alluring and strangely attractive?  The premise for a story? 

Mary looked on in speechless horror as Carl flounced off slinging the brightly plumed cobra around his neck.  It reared back as ordinary boa's aren't wont to do, and bit him on the bald spot.

"Eeeeeh!" screamed Carl.  His eyes bulged in greater fright when his flailing hands found and slapped at the warm and tufty skin of the snake.  In a heroic lift he plucked it from his head and threw it across the room.  "Poisoned!" he croaked to Mary.

Mary, galvanised, electrified, moved, jumped across the room to Carl, and that is how Roger found the two of them: Carl on his knees bowed before Mary, and Mary towering over Carl, sucking poison from the top of his head.

"It's not--" said Mary, and planted a forceful kiss on Carl's head.  She turned and spat.  "--not what--" she said, and she puckered again.

Carl beseeched Roger with his eyes.
when ur a roamin', do as the settled do o_0

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George

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Re: Teaching writing
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2008, 11:00:49 AM »
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Carl beseeched Roger with his eyes.
  ahahahahah Lovely line!!
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Re: Teaching writing
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2008, 07:26:52 PM »
9. Contractions aren't necessary.
Try telling that to a woman in labour! uuuuuuuuuu
« Last Edit: February 04, 2008, 07:31:20 PM by Granny Mae »

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Acjade

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Re: Teaching writing
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2008, 07:34:03 PM »
 offtopic

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George

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Re: Teaching writing
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2008, 07:36:27 PM »
But wonderfully so!
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Acjade

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Re: Teaching writing
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2008, 07:52:02 PM »
 C-Section, George.

Re: Teaching writing
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2008, 10:00:19 PM »
25.  Double-check what your write to make sure you didn't any words out.
And there is no liar like the indignant man... -Nietszche

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. -William James

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Re: Teaching writing
« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2014, 04:44:46 PM »


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Re: Teaching writing
« Reply #10 on: March 16, 2014, 06:35:08 PM »
The punctuation is correct in both sentences. It's just that the first sentence is from Guangdong.