Edit for clarity in Microsoft Word & Outlook
Edit for clarity in Microsoft Word & Outlook
Writing lively sentences matters because lively sentences hold our readers’ attention and make them more receptive to our message. In this quiz, test your knowledge of the two most common ways we bore our readers: writing with passive voice and nominalizations.
Punctuation should clarify your points and improve your sentence flow. See if you know when it’s appropriate to use a comma, semicolon, dash, period, or colon. Take this short quiz to test your knowledge about punctuation!
One major cause of wordiness is a word many people
have never even heard: “nominalization.” A nominalization is a noun that should be a verb. When we convert a nominalization to its verb form, we enliven our writing. Do you know how to spot a nominalization? Check with our five-question quiz:
Even when writing for work, it can feel intensely personal. So when we get feedback about our writing, we tend to dismiss it as a superficial style preference. This framing conveniently allows us to ignore any advice we don’t like. But Professors Catherine J. Cameron and Lance N. Long will not let us off the hook that easily. In The Science Behind the Art of Legal Writing, the authors ask: Does advice about legal writing style have any basis in science?
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