10. Prefer the standard to offbeat.

Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

In verbal conversations such, we can easily ask each other for the definition of the words they use that we do not understand; however, the writer-reader relationship does no...

This is what makes a writer’s job more challenging, especially in the information age where information can be easily accessed by anyone with the means in only a click away. It is our responsibility as writers to delve further into thinking of content that may se...

Our professor in Ethics 1 once told us, “make sure that you allot at least two to three days between your final draft and its revision ─ you’d be surprised by how many errors you’ve actually made throughout writing your paper.”

Revision and rewriting our write-ups are among the im...

I personally find both reading and writing in an active voice easier than using a passive voice. Writing in an active voice helps readers to focus more on the subject rather on its accompanying details such as its qualities and actions.

Writers have the talent, or the ability at least, to play with words that can inspire, inform, and persuade their writers, so why waste such time and talent on writing something that almost everyone else knows about?

After years of training as a campus journalist and participating in district-level feature writing competitions, I have finally received my score on the first ever paper that I did as a college student ─ a whopping 23/50 written in bright red ink. My freshman self was devastated, and que...

Such as how powerful words can influence and gain an impact on the readers, using too many words can confuse them ─ and also the writer as she slowly lose sight of her thought as she excessively writes down a long list of words that are supposed to support the topic.

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Nonetheless, I am grateful that this event happened. What seemed to be my biggest failure at a time as a young aspiring writer is actually my largest eye-opening moment that motivated me more to brush up my writing and research skills.

Having said this, here are some of the things ...

While admitting that I am at fault for using lengthy sentences as a writer, I appreciate it better when the articles I am reading are direct with their ideas and arguments. I can see how this rule should be applied for a more effective writing style, as it guides not only...

Ensuring consistency in using one tense throughout the summary avoids confusion to our reader, and also helps them to point out when was the summarized topic relevant in our history (whether if it is in the past or the present).