THE GOLDEN RULES OF WRITING
To write or not to write - before you start writing, check there is a reason for doing it. Would a phone call or an e-mail do instead? Once you have decided to write, make sure you know exactly why you are writing. This will help you to keep it short and clear… Visit the following sites for candid tips:
http://www.ziskadesigns.co.uk/plainenglish-s8.html
WHAT IS GOOD WRITING?
Good writing expresses a clear point, is tightly structured, grammatically and syntactically correct, substantive, and interesting. But then, writing doesn't just communicate ideas; it generates them. If you're bad at writing and don't like to do it, you'll miss out on most of the ideas writing would have generated. To develop your writing skills, go to:
http://www.writingcenter.emory.edu/goodwrite.html
http://www.writingcenter.emory.edu/writing.html (Strongly recommended)
http://www.gsw.edu/~wac/good_writing.htm
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
http://www.paulgraham.com/writing44.html
THE FOG INDEX
Measuring the amount of mental fog in a piece of writing is not an exact science, so you can't expect a score produced by this test to be anything more than a rough indication of how difficult the writing will be to read. But the score will at least be an objective thing, and with practice you will be able to apply the test very quickly… See these links for a clearer discussion:
http://www.ziskadesigns.co.uk/plainenglish-s9.html
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