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In this Writing is Thinking sentence makeover, I tackle a jargon-filled sentence of literary criticism, published in a Bloomsbury Academic anthology. The author writes: The comestible sensations that precede both the achieved reminiscence and its inherent condition of emotional repose
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
Here’s an academic sentence from a paper draft in the social sciences: “My measure of occupation-specific skills builds on the task-specific skill framework to incorporate the transfer of skills across occupations based on a measure of occupational similarity in job
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