This was a very quick read and very useful. It covered about thirty principles of good writing clearly and concisely. The following are things I need to work on:
- Omit needless words (rule 13)
- Avoid a succession of loose sentences (rule 14)
- Use a variety of sentence types
- Place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end (rule 18)
- Avoid weak conjunctions like 'and' or 'but'
- Put statements in positive form (rule 12)
I got my version on the Kindle for only a dollar. It seems to be quite an old version because they also recommended using hyphens in to-day and to-morrow!
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