Best practices for Week 10 By Miss Amreet

Best practices for (Week 10) By Miss Amreet Kaur A/P Jageer Singh

Write Succinctly • Write clean, active sentences. Crisp, snappy sentences attract and hold your readers’ attention. • Stay focused • Be positive - Negative: Do not write negative statements. - Positive: Write positive statements.

Write Succinctly • Trust the reader -Too much: Access the Amazon Web site at www. amazon. com. Locate the Shop All Departments menu on the left side of the screen. Click the Kindle drop-down menu, and then choose e. Books. (29 words) - Better: Access Amazon. com and choose Kindle> e. Books. (6 words)

Write Succinctly • Choose Anglo-Saxon words - ask > interrogate > question - dead > deceased > defunct - end > finish > conclude - thin > spare > emaciated

Write Succinctly • Eliminate excess words – use bullets • Remove redundancies e. g. past experience, begin to initiate, a burning fire, close proximity, earlier/previous, basic fundamentals, free gift, same exact thing • Shorten inflated phrases e. g. On account of the fact of. . . Because In order to…To All of a sudden…Suddenly

Write Succinctly • Keep verbs alive - Lifeless Verbs: The vase was bumped into by Jeffrey and it got wobbly for a moment and then went crashing to the floor. (21 words) - Vital Verbs: Jeffrey bumped the vase, making it wobble and then crash to the floor. (13 words)

Write Succinctly • Ax adverbs and adjectives - very, very weak > spent - Studied extremely hard > crammed - Smelled extremely bad > stank - Did a phenomenal job > excelled

Use a Conversational Style • Sample Pedantic Style: Indeed, one would assume that the titular head of our family, the matriarch, manufactured theological impression that she was of supernatural origins. • Revision: My grandmother thought she was a goddess.

Use a Conversational Style • Sound like You, only better Small Talk: Hey dude. Yo. How’s it hangin’? Man, what an awesome adventure! Still can’t believe I spent a whole month in India. It was wild! Revision: I spent the month of May exploring Rajasthan, India.

Use Precise Terms • Keep verbs active • Show and tell e. g. Telling: Jeff life chocolate Showing: Jeff bit into the chocolate bar, closing his eyes and sighing as the dark sweetness melted on his tongue. • Use specific concrete nouns e. g. Time > Clock > Cuckoo clock Fear > Dog > Chihuahua

Use Plain Terms • • E. g. extemporaneous discourse vs. impromptu speech Avoid idioms Spell out acronyms Be wary of trendy terms e. g. staycation: vacation at home Kerfuffle: disturbance or fuss

List Items • Use bullets e. g. The contents of the junk box spilled out to reveal a - padlock - tube of lipstick - pen • Use numbers for sequences e. g. (i) With Photoshop running, open the image file (ii) From the menu bar, select Image.

Other Guidelines • • Keep sentences short Keep paragraphs short Chunk information Title and subtitle - Vague titles: Holy Cow! Dashing Debonair, Delightful Dashes, It’s Fantastic - Explanatory titles: How to Restring a Guitar, Recipe for Cranberry Muffins, Learn to Say No • Set the right tone - Workplace terms: endeavor, slog, work, grind, struggle - Adventure terms: master, achieve, learn, accomplish, realize