From the course: A Crash Course in Writing Well: Learn to Write with More Style, Flair, and Impact
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How to make your writing precise
From the course: A Crash Course in Writing Well: Learn to Write with More Style, Flair, and Impact
How to make your writing precise
- In this lesson, you're going to learn how to improve your writing by nailing down your meaning really precisely. By the end of it, you should know how to avoid leaving your readers confused by sentences that may be too murky or too fuzzy to immediately click. Let's start by looking at an example of a really unclear sentence from a blog post that I made up. "World-renewed author Jack Bliss said today Nine Days is a new book that was mostly written in the basement during a book signing, although with the rest of the chapters that would've been written in a nearby park." Now this has got just so much wrong with it in terms of clarity, right? Go ahead and pause the video and see if you can spot, first of all, how many things, in terms of clarity, are wrong with it? Write those things down if it helps. Okay, done that? Well, first off, there's an actual mistaken word in there, right, it should be world-renowned,…
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How I discovered the secret sauce9m
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The magic of simplicity3m 25s
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How to make your writing tight6m 50s
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How to make your writing plain4m 57s
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How to make your writing straightforward6m 44s
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The magic of clarity2m 12s
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How to make your writing precise4m 52s
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How to make your writing sharp4m 31s
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How to make your writing specific14m 5s
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The magic of elegance2m 35s
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How to make your writing tidy6m 57s
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How to make your writing graceful4m 35s
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How to make your writing musical7m 12s
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The magic of evocativeness3m 28s
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How to make your writing varied4m 9s
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How to make your writing forceful3m 47s
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How to make your writing colorful11m 47s
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