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In this sentence makeover, we start with an overcrowded sentence that is trying to do too much work on its own. We break it down into three distinct sentences, each with its own, manageable task.
In today’s sentence makeover, Bryce turns a single 68-word sentence into four sentences. He shows us how to map the relationship between parts of a long sentence by identifying subordinating conjunctions and relative pronouns.
Okay, it’s true: every installment in the “Who can benefit from using an editor?” series emphasizes how an editor can help you reach your readers. The “Writing is Thinking” approach is tailored for writers who care about reaching their readers
Everyone can benefit from using an editor, but the specific benefits depend on what each writer needs. To see other writing profiles, click here. The intellectual in the weeds can use an editor to see their own writing through the
Everyone can benefit from using an editor, but the specific benefits depend on what each writer needs. To see other writing profiles, click here. The busy scholar can use an editor to accelerate the writing process. Writing and revising is
When I describe the signature Writing is Thinking Editing approach, I make a bold claim: that for most writers, much of the time, there is a gap between what their sentence says and what it is meant to say. This
You’d like to think your education has carried you well past short sentences. But you’ve been delivered into a wilderness of false assumptions and bad habits, A desert of jargon and weak constructions, a land of linguistic barbarism,* A place
In today’s Writing is Thinking, short-sentence makeover, we look at a sentence from religion and philosophy, published in a MIT Press book. The author writes: The interpretation according to which enlightenment/wisdom and virtue/goodness and meditation/mindfulness are the ultimate end is
The Writing is Thinking approach starts with short sentences. Experimenting with short sentences is the first lesson in Verlyn Klinkenborg’s brilliant writing book Several Short Sentences about Writing. Klinkenborg writes: There’s nothing wrong with well-made, strongly constructed, purposeful long sentences.But
Welcome to the blog of Writing is Thinking. The most important content you’ll find here is sample edits of academic sentences (and occasionally paragraphs). See in practice what it looks like to do a Klinkenborg-style breakdown of long, complex sentences