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things, used to argue that since on
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shorter phrase like ‘economic ref
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are there mostly nominalisations li
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describe their craft.Where else do
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were interesting as long as you had
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A writer may use all, and a good wr
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The starting point might be to reco
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I told you last night that I might
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TRY THIS1 Write a run-on sentence s
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refine that statement—about a pla
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I knew I was quite drunk, and when
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Strictly speaking failed sentences,
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elegantly, without drawing attentio
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in mind. That’s what I think you
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thing—the same disciplines of des
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be about me. I dread the moments wh
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It’s high timeIt doesn’t get an
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Write everything from scratch. Don
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numbers are thin these days); they
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style—of courtesy and economy and
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Beware useless modifiers like ‘ac
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Services, CASA for the Civil Aviati
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CHAPTER 4POETICSAll my writing is p
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instrument each of us has been give
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and earth.To find out about sex and
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Good writing is a falling short of
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politics.Write to protest, by all m
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The YelpIn his introduction to the
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you need at least a subject.You nee
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author leaves by not telling it dir
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CHAPTER 5ATTITUDEI don’t know if
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in the specification document. Inte
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the individual needs of every write
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John Cheever says he writes for the
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yourself among the employees, linin
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When you write you organise ideas.
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Arrive beforeyou begin—finishthin
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thesis is not a statement of whethe
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or thesis sentence, which is often
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little red spot in the grey and gre
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functional, writing. We have too mu
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O’Conner, Patricia 1996, Woe is I
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where I sit now, two storeys above
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