#Paragraph

Jeff Guhin

jeffguhin

Academic writing has a lot of problems, but I'm always struck by the regular complaints about vocabulary. Sometimes people use a fancy word when a simple one would be better,

Hᴇʀᴏ Jᴏᴜʀɴᴇʏ

HeroJourneyOn

1. Leverage self-interestMost people won't do anything if there's nothing in there for their best interest, and that's fineYou can do this by telling people up front what they can

AJeepHasNoName 🖕the🟠💩

AJeepHasNoName

Has anybody been paying attention to what's going on with the United States Postal Service?Like they're going to go bankrupt if they don't get some federal money?And Trump's actively refusing

bree

astroeulogy

i got this question on CC recently:"im new to writing and having a hard time on getting my fic to flow nicely, any tips?"so here's a thread on establishing good

davidallengreen

davidallengreen

*lawyer and ex-civil servant hat on*This third paragraph is curiously and painfully wordedAnd you do not get paragraphs this curiously and painfully worded by accidentSomething is up herehttps://twitter.com/TomTugendhat/status/1252679936768344070 The

Imam Tjoerang

Grondwerk

By deriding and jettisoning close reading as an old-school, formalist hangover - post-colonial and post-modern literary studies have led to a kind of blindness to *text*. People don't read texts

Justin Mikolay 💻

jmikolay

SPEECHWRITING ADMONITIONS1.Engage early, engage often. The best relationship is one in which a speechwriter writes with the principal, not for the principal. Insist on meeting in person months in advance

Tom Chivers

TomChivers

On @bengoldacre et al's new study, looking at 17 million people to establish risk factors for Covid-19; and why the exciting thing is not the findings but because it shows

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jjkmoonchiId

i think my peak on stan twt was getting a dm by louis tomlinson for covering his gf’s face with a “lol” sticker ..... wait lemme humiliate myself further and

James ☂️ Haeck

jamesjhaeck

I've been working on a fan RPG lately (which I unfortunately don't plan on making public) and I've discovered that I love using InDesign! If you're a #DMsGuild or #RPG

dr elmyra

elmyra

So you know how fiction writers always say that the first draft is you telling the story to yourself, and editing is you telling it to someone who doesn't live

Sally Hines

sally_hines

#JudithButler The anti-intellectualism and defensiveness at the heart of the Gender Critical movement has been ever more apparent this week following Butler’s interview in @NewStatesman Rather than taking the time

Anders Kingsley 📚

Anders_Kingsley

A book's first sentence/paragraph is key to gaining a potential reader's attention. So let's play...Add the first sentence/s (not more than one tweet) of a published book. No need to

Laura Meschede

LauraMeschede

In München wurden im Juli zehn Menschen zu jahrelangen Haftstrafen verurteilt - ohne je eine Straftat begangen zu haben. Der einzige Vorwurf: Mitgliedschaft in der Kommunistischen Partei der Türkei (TKP/ML).

Matt Whitlock

mattdizwhitlock

The op-ed Dale and others cite defending Abrams was heavily edited from its original version AFTER the MLB decided to move the All Star game.Paragraph on the left is before,

Elizabeth May

_ElizabethMay

i am about to read and livetweet a newly minted millionaire's "confessions" over my morning coffee. never say i haven't done anything for you, twitter. NEVER SAY.https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/04/confessions-overnigh