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When I taught English to college freshman with below average writing skills, I quickly realized that the problem wasn’t that my students were lazy or dumb or not trying. The problem was their writing had become too complicated. Way too complicated. (Yes, I know that’s a fragment.)
They had been trying so hard to add clauses and commas and big words that they could barely spit out a real sentence. Fragments, comma splices, and misplaced
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11.17.08
"Needless to say", it really is about bringing value to your work. These ideas can translate to just about any field not just writing. I write for a living, and I even get caught up in trying to sound impressive.
Great post! (sentence fragment, unnecessary use of exclamation point).
12.29.09
I'm going to have to re-write my blogs :-). Thanks for the lesson!
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