HOW
TO RITE GUD...
HOW
TO RITE GUD...
1 . Avoid alliteration. Always
2 . Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3 . Avoid cliches like the plague.
4 . Employ the vernacular.
5 . Eschew ampersands & abbreviations etc..
6 . Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7 . It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
8 . Contractions aren't necessary.
9 . Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
10. One should never generalise.
11. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know".
12. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
13. Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
14. Be more or less specific.
15. Understatement is always best.
16. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
17. Analogies in writing are as much use as a chocolate fireguard.
18. The passive voice is to be avoided.
19. Who needs rhetorical questions?
20. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
