On Writting Well

p 9: “if you find writing is hard , because it’s hard”
p 12: “fighting clutter is like fighting weeds”
p 24: “You are writing for yourself. Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience”
p 35: “Readers hear what they are hearing”
p 51: important questions for units
p 52: “Think small => decide what comes of your subject you’re going to bite off; be content to core, write it well and then stop”
p 55: readers want to know, what is in for them => so write a good lead”
p 63: know when to stop an article
p 64: “the perfect end should be for the readers slightly a surprise and yet seems exactly right.”
p 65: the end should be remind to the begin
p 73: mood => to change the mood before the start of the previous section
p 73: stop using but and never start a sentence with however
p 74: no using of I’d because it my stand for I would or I had
p 79: “just delete ugly looking sentences and don’t try to fix them because it’s often faster to rewrite them”
p 83: “rewriting is the essence of writing well”
p 84: writing is an evolving process
p 104: “How to write nonfiction”
p 107: when you should use a tape recorder
p 110: “Never let go anything out into the world that you don’t understand”
p 128: “Distill the important from the immaterial”
p 131: “Don’t use wax when you are describing sacred or meaningful places”
p 134: tips for writing memoirs => write about yourself by all means with confidence and pleasure
p 146: “Give yourself permission to write about yourself and have a good time doing it”
p 147: “Writing is thinking on paper”
p 148: describing how a process works is valuable for two reasons
- it forces you to make sure you know how it works
- take the readers through the same sequence of ideas and deductions that made the process clear to you
p 156: “Always start with to much material. Then give your reader just enough”
way of academic writing: question => answer (with this little form you can write well structured documents)
on_writing_well_vocabularly.pdf