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Clear And Simple Writing: Get Active

October 5, 2012 By corinnerodrigues 13 Comments

This entry is part 4 of 15 in the series Clear And Simple Writing

Get active. Yes. Another way to keep our writing clear and simple is to use Active Voice rather than the Passive Voice in your writing. Now comes your question: What are you talking about? What is Active Voice? A simple way to define active voice is to say – when the subject in a sentence is doing […]

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Clear And Simple Writing: Use Fewer Words

September 24, 2012 By corinnerodrigues 38 Comments

This entry is part 3 of 15 in the series Clear And Simple Writing

Wordy phrases are the hallmark of Indian business writing. I guess, we inherited it from the British. We think that the more ‘formal’ the word used, the more important we sound! That’s not true. Fewer words make better writing. We often use two or three words where one word would do. This is what results in […]

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Clear And Simple Writing: The Power of One Idea

September 17, 2012 By corinnerodrigues 38 Comments

This entry is part 2 of 15 in the series Clear And Simple Writing

Writing is quite different from speaking. When we speak, we might say that whole sentence together, with a pause in between. Our expressions and pauses help the person we are talking to understand our meaning. Not so in writing. We have to be concise and clear in what we write. Continuing the Clear and Simple […]