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tips for writing clear-as-mud content
Maintaining a clear focus in your content allows your reader to understand the purpose and value in what you have to say and keeps your message familiar and alive. If you need some help coming up with a plan for clear categories to structure your social media content, download my pdf guide and let’s get you organized!
DANGLING MODIFIERS
This mistake is commonly found in a first writing draft. Can you recognize it? And more importantly, can you correct it?
THE COMMA SPLICE
Simple ways to solve the number one comma error without scrolling Google for hours. Commas require balance and completeness. When one of these factors is missing, we end up with a grammatical or stylistic mistake.
text talks
What you have to say is important, but so is how you say it. I'm talking about voice.
Parallelism
Parallelism is all about balance. Just as parallel lines in geometry run in the same direction but never meet, parallel language structures are similar in form, and they take your reader in the same direction. Mixing structures is confusing and jarring for the reader. Let's look at some examples of five common mistakes in parallelism to get your writing flowing in the right direction.
Supercharged Verbs
Have you ever wondered why your word-perfect writing simply lies there on the page without a wink of character? One reason could be your verb choice.
12 Books of Christmas
A book is a magical gateway to the imagination. It is the most powerful and personal gift we can give our children.
Night Waking
Days in the darkness, nights in the light,
Eyes looking up at me
Shining so bright.
The Female Origins of the Fairy Tale
The early literary fairy tale was not only adult and aristocratic but also predominantly female. It is imperative for those interested in the literary fairy tale to read the works of the bold and creative women who both wrote and inspired others to write the well-known and well-loved fairy tales that we enjoy to this day.
Canadian English
Canadian English is confusing, eh?! With even Canadian dictionaries and trusted resources defining the language by its difference to American and British English, one can’t help but feel that Canadian English is lacking the international recognition it deserves as its own colourful and eclectic language. And this practice of defining a language by its similarities and differences to others causes a great deal of confusion.