A Great Site to Improve Your Writing
Nov 28, 2009 14:42 Filed in: Media
Via Carmine Gallo’s new book The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience
, the Plain English Campaign is an instructive and entertaining treasure trove of free hints on writing easy-to-read text.
Supporters of the organization chose (in a 2994 survey) “at the end of the day” to be the most annoying of all clichés. Second was “at this moment in time,” which tied with the constant use of the word “like” as if it were a form of punctuation.’'With all due respect' came fourth.
Their admonition: “George Orwell's advice is still worth following: 'Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.’”
The site also provides a Javascript program, Drivel Defence, that analyzes either pasted text or a web page for over-long sentences.
The site is worth exploring.
http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/
, the Plain English Campaign is an instructive and entertaining treasure trove of free hints on writing easy-to-read text.Supporters of the organization chose (in a 2994 survey) “at the end of the day” to be the most annoying of all clichés. Second was “at this moment in time,” which tied with the constant use of the word “like” as if it were a form of punctuation.’'With all due respect' came fourth.
Their admonition: “George Orwell's advice is still worth following: 'Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.’”
The site also provides a Javascript program, Drivel Defence, that analyzes either pasted text or a web page for over-long sentences.
The site is worth exploring.
http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/
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