Revising
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Revision Strategies: HOCs and LOCs (Duke): You have only so much time to revise your paper before you hand it in: what should you focus on? This detailed checklist from the Writing Studio helps you distinguish between higher and lower order concerns. Getting Feedback (UNC): You've done all you can on your own: now what? This handout suggets reasons and ways to solicit feedback from others on your writing. |
Reverse Outlining (Duke): One of the Writing Studio's most frequently recommended methods for evaluating the organization of papers, reverse outlining allows you to take a step back and evaluate "the big picture" of your argument. Roadmaps (Duke): This handout discusses tips for providing clear signals and signposts to readers as you guide them through your argument. Organization (UNC): Learn strategies for successfully organizing (and reorganizing) your essays, from reverse outlining, sectioning, and visualization to avoiding common pitfalls such as plot summary, generalization, and competing ideas. |
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Improving Your Writing Style (UNC): This handout covers ways to improve your writing style by avoiding wordiness, weak verbs, and "ostentatious erudition' (writing to impress). Using "I" in Academic Writing (Duke): This handout guides readers through the benefits and pitfalls of using the first-person pronouns I and we in academic writing.
Using Tag Clouds (Duke): Tag clouds can be a helpful anaytical tool for eliminating unnecessary repetition in your writing. |
Clarity and Conciseness (Duke): This handout outlines practical methods for eliminating unnecessary words and phrases from sentences and choosing the most straightforward verb forms. Strategies for Improving Sentence Clarity (Purdue): Do you need to improve the clarity of your writing, but don't know where to start? This page focuses on sentence-level concerns, offering ten practical strategies for arranging verbs and nouns for maximum clarity, avoiding unclear pronoun references, and steering clear of passive voice. Paramedic Method: A Lesson in Writing Concisely (Purdue): Adapted from Richard Lanham's Revising Prose, this short guide offers one method for eliminating unnecessary wordiness. |
Using Inclusive Language Guidelines for Nonsexist Language (Society for Music Theory): SMT offers strategies for achieving gender-inclusive language. The examples focus on musicology, but the recommendations apply across disciplines. Removing Bias in Language (APA): The American Psychological Association online style guide offers strategies for avoiding language biased against: |
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