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How to Make Sure Your Readers Ignore Your Stuff: No Action Verbs, No Imagery

a “Verbal Knightcap” by Robert M. Knight, AIW Board Member One really great way to make your readers go away is to sneer at them, write pompously. Works every time; they will make a point of avoiding what you wrote. And one great way to write pompously is to drain the energy of your sentences [...]

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The Gap that Shouldn’t Be: Journalistic Writing Versus Everyone Else’s

a “Verbal Knightcap” by Robert M. Knight, AIW Board Member A long time ago, mainstream writing and journalistic writing said goodbye to each other, and English has been poorer ever since. Each has much to learn from the other, but I maintain that mainstream writers can learn more from journalistic writing than the other way [...]

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