Words That Suck and How to Avoid Them. (Or, why ‘little’ and ‘very’ are cheap as* words.)
If you're knee deep in your essay, or knee deep in thinking about writing your essay, here's a heads up once you've got a first draft. It's a way of making sure that you haven't slipped into lazy writing, which basically means not thinking about your word choices. You...
Taking Chances With Your Essay
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader, no surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.” -- Robert Frost All of us who enjoy writing are tortured by Mr. Frost’s quote because we know he is correct, and curse ourselves daily trying to build...