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Guptill Ch 8
"every word and sentence should be doing some significant work for the paper as a whole. Sometimes that work is more to provide pleasure than meaning" (69)
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Guptil Chapter 8
“That clear consistency allows us to devote more of our brain power to recalling technical terms (like immunomodulatory) and comprehending the key ideas. “
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Guptill Chapter 8
“One common metaphor notes that a good edit is like the last twist of a camera lens that brings the whole picture into focus.” (65) 
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Guptill 8
"Sometimes that work is more to provide pleasure than meaning—you needn’t ruthlessly eliminate every rhetorical flourish—but everything in the final version should add something unique to the paper. "
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Guptill Chapter 8
“One approach that often leads to a difficult writing process and a clunky result is the pursuit of “academese”: an effort to write in an ornamented and “scholarly” way. As Michael Harvey explains1, the desire to sound more academic might prompt a student to write “To satisfy her hunger for nutrition, she ate the bread” rather than simply “She was hungry, so she ate the bread.” ” (65)
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Guptill Chapter 8
“The general rule introduced there holds for any writing: every word and sentence should be doing some significant work for the paper as a whole.”
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Guptill Chapter 8
“Highly effective writers routinely produce vague, tortuous, and bloated drafts, and are happy to do so. It usually means that they’re onto an interesting idea” (Guptill 66)
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Guptill Chapter 8
“While you can’t often summon elegance out of nowhere, you can learn a few structures that are often pleasing to the reader’s ear because they harmonize what you’re saying with how you’re saying it” 
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Chapter 8: Clarity and Concision
“The general rule introduced there holds for any writing: every word and sentence should be doing some significant work for the paper as a whole. Sometimes that work is more to provide pleasure than meaning—you needn’t ruthlessly eliminate every rhetorical flourish—but everything in the final version should add something unique to the paper.” (Guptill 69)
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I felt good about this. Might take a while though. I work best under pressure though.
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Guptill, chapter 8 on Clarity and Concision
“The key point is this: one of the best things you can do to revise for greater clarity is to recast a passage so that the characters are the grammatical subjects and the key actions are the verbs” (Guptill). 
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Guptill Chapter 8
“The best way to achieve clarity and concision in writing is to separate the drafting process from the revision process. Highly effective writers routinely produce vague, tortuous, and bloated drafts, and are happy to do so. It usually means that they’re onto an interesting idea.”
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Guptill Ch 8
“Look for opportunities to replace longer phrases with shorter phrases or words...Strong, precise verbs can often replace bloated phrases.” (Guptill 70)
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Guptill Ch 8
“An elegant and apt turn of phrase is satisfying both to write and to read. While you can’t often summon elegance out of nowhere, you can learn a few structures that are often pleasing to the reader’s ear because they harmonize what you’re saying with how you’re saying it” (72)
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Guptill, Ch. 8
“That clear consistency allows us to devote more of our brain power to recalling technical terms (like immunomodulatory) and comprehending the key ideas. That makes it both easier and more interesting to read.”
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Guptill Ch8
"Unclear and bloated prose isn't just tedious to your reader; it's a needless obstacle to your own thinking."
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