How To Rite Gooder

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HOW TO RITE GOODER

Avoid alliteration. Always.
Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
Avoid cliches like the plague. They’re old hat.
Employ the vernacular.
Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
Contractions aren’t necessary.
Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
One should never generalize.
Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “I hate quotations. Just tell me what you know.”
Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
Don’t be redundant; don’t use more words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous.
Profanity sucks.
Be more or less specific.
Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
One word sentences? Eliminate.
Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
The passive voice is to be avoided.
Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
Who needs rhetorical questions?
Check to see if you any words out.
Be careful to use adjectives and adverbs correct.
About sentence fragments.
When dangling, don’t use participles.
Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.
Don’t use no double negatives.
Its important to use apostrophe’s right.
Don’t use commas, that aren’t necessary.
Only Proper Nouns should be capitalized.
a sentence should begin with a capital and end with a period
Use hyphens in compound-words, not just in any two-word phrase.
In letters compositions reports and things like that we use commas to keep a string of items apart.
Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
A writer mustn’t shift your point of view.
Don’t write a run-on sentence you’ve got to punctuate it.