Sentences (and clauses) that begin with with are doomed to be weak. The following sentences suffer from this affliction; discussions describe how to improve the sentence, and revisions demonstrate the solutions. 1. With a quarter-billion-dollar industry possible, there is a real
By Chad Magee Each day I wake up and have a cup of coffee while I read the news and check my email (articles about early morning email be damned!). Inevitably, I end up reading the Medium newsletter —
By Lauren Langford To become a better writer, you must read often; everyone who aspires to write well has heard this before. Without further instructions, however, a budding writer can find themselves feeling lost as to what kind of reading
Let’s face it, writing can be very instrumental. Through your write-up, you can proffer solutions and enlighten people; you can also motivate and give hope to the crestfallen. The challenge you may encounter is that you may not always
Writing is a lonely job. It demands spending extended periods by yourself working on articles, stories or books, often without feedback from others. Look at the work spaces of many famous writers, and you'll find them typing away in
Reading comprehension is a skill that improves like any other, therefore, you can improve your understanding with practice and a game plan. Dedicate yourself to engaging in a combination of both "guided" and "relaxed" reading practice for at least
There are a lot of articles on how to be a better writer and things a writer should do, but what you rarely see though is what a writer should never do. Thus, here goes 10 things a writer
At first glance, the rules of capitalization in English might seem very easy, but as you write you might find out that capitalization goes beyond proper nouns and the first word of every sentence. Thus, here are 10 capitalization
Compound nouns are of three kinds: open, hyphenated, and closed. As the names imply, “open compounds” are written as separate words, “hyphenated compounds” are written with one or more hyphens, and “closed compounds” are written as a single
Writing sometimes is a skill most people take for granted because they feel once you are learned then you can write. This is why as a writer, you should work twice as hard as people in other professions like
