"Some of the worst writing around suffers from……" — Constance Hale
"Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important arrow in the rhetorical quiver. After all, it exists for a reason."
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14 Quotes by Constance Hale
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Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's…
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Verbose is not a synonym for literary.
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I’m a sucker for this stuff. The @ is called chiocciola (snail) in Italian! The & was once taught as…
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Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is…
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Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.
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Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as…
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A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless…
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There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and…
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Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news…
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Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and…
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In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can…
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Be bold. Be fast. Get to the point right away. The best email communication is simple and clear.
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