While You Write

Contents:

• Common writing errors
  • Misplaced modifier
• Final edits
  • Tone
• Emphasis techniques
  • Position in sentence
  • Adding adjectives
  • Separate part to it’s own phrase
  • Repetition
  • Focusing adverb
  • Passive, for the agent: by whom?
  • Passive, for the object
  • Start with a concept word or phrase:
  • Start with verb
  • Cleft Sentence
  • Coordination
  • Share or relate to the subject
• Nice sentence patterns
  • Complex
  • Simple
• Sentence grammatical options
  • Action oriented noun phrases
  • Flow
  • Finite or non-finite clause?
  • Common comparative constructions
  • List, one item more important
• A sentence is one thought
• Paragraphs
  • Sentences
  • Squeeze info
  • Gestalt
  • Flow & Coherence
  • Focused, tidy
  • Semantic Linkage in paragraph: Next sentence
  • Rearrangement Patterns
  • Paragraph patterns
  • Opinionated, forceful
• Common semantic sentence patterns
  • Generalization concession
  • Extreme concession
  • Facts conclusion
  • Action result
  • Fact reason
  • Then vs. Now
  • Fact result
  • Concessive: Although x, y
  • Induction, Deduction
  • Time based
  • Establishing pre condition
  • Directions
  • Effect
  • List of items where one is more important
  • List of actions (modal verb + multiple verb phrases, should go, eat…)
• Sentence openings
  • Start with subordinate conjunction (while…)
  • Background
  • Link to Context
  • Place (even metaphorically)
  • Negation
  • Directions
  • Second part
• Tips for writing good sentences
  • Readers
  • Main Point
  • “Peripheral Info”
  • Modifiers
  • Relative Clauses
  • Adverbial
  • Time
  • Infinitive phrases
  • Modal verbs
  • Fill in the coordination blanks
  • Prepositions
  • Accurate Meaning
  • Concise
  • Types
• Value
• Words selection