Readable writing

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Readable writing

• Lesikar Pettit
• Chapter 2

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Adaptation

• Fitting the message to the audience
• Using words concepts appropriate to the
  audience
• Visualize reader(s)
• Simplicity

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Word selection

• Selecting the right words
• Levels of understanding
• Strong vigorous words
• Familiar words
• Short vs long words
• Specialized words
• Concrete vs abstract words

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Passive vs Active

• Active
• is strongest
• Simpler more direct
• Passive
• Varies sentence types
• Another version of story
• Avoid overuse/camouflaged verges (p. 24

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Correct idiom

• The way We say things in our language
• Little rhyme or reason
• but is understood in same culture
• Look up words find words
• Also p 25 re which way to say it
• In search of vsin search for

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Nondiscriminatory words

• Discrimination again minorities
• Stereotyping
• Sexist words
• Equality (neutrality)
• masculine/feminine
• Lowering a persons status

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Sentence construction

• Short sentences
• Word economy
• Declutter
• Phrases surplus words
• Roundabout vs direct
• Repetition redundancy
• emphasis

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Paragraphs

• Unity
• Short
• Topical sentences, first
• Parallelism

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Computer aids

• Spell checker
• Grammar checker
• Other helps?