WORDS ON THE LINE continues its drilling good writing practices into the minds of developing writers. This third article of the series, Editing Tips for Effective Writing from the University of Pennsylvania, is the longest yet.
This latest link provides some information you might have read in part one from Hamilton College and part two from Hunter College, so you may make the mistake of thinking it's redundant. But it's not. Plenty of new content is there in the Tips for Effective Prose and Avoid Dumb Mistakes sections. Among them are avoiding passive voice, using vivid nouns and verbs, avoiding awkward sentences, knowing your possessives, and knowing your plurals.
Yes, academic content shows up, some of which can be arcane, but just read the parts that will teach you writing ideas you might not have known and reinforce the good practices you already have.
