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Writing Writing
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
- David Hare
Idea
Collect
Focus
Order
Draft
Revise
Idea
PersonalOthers
• Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write down critical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts are untrue and practice talking and writing back to them.
-Robert J. Mckain
Collect
yourself others
Focus
• The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
– Mary Heaton Vorse
Ordernarration
illustration
cause/effect
comparison/contrast
process analysis
persuasion
Draft
Answering your questions
Ideas on paper
Making sense of what you know
Revision
audience clarity
• Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
– William Zinsser
Editing (p. 17)
Grammar
Punctuation
Words
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives.
- James Joyce
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