Descriptive Word List. Word Choice. What this handout is about This handout can help you revise your papers for word-level clarity, eliminate wordiness and avoid clichés, find the words that best express your ideas, and choose words that suit an academic audience.
Introduction Writing is a series of choices. As you work on a paper, you choose your topic, your approach, your sources, and your thesis; when it’s time to write, you have to choose the words you will use to express your ideas and decide how you will arrange those words into sentences and paragraphs. As you revise your draft, you make more choices. As you read further into the handout, keep in mind that it can sometimes take more time to “save” words from your original sentence than to write a brand new sentence to convey the same meaning or idea. For tips on making more substantial revisions, take a look at our handouts on reorganizing drafts and revising drafts. “Awkward,” “vague,” and “unclear” word choice Wordiness Clichés Try these yourself: Grossman, Ellie. Easy Words to Use as Sentence Starters to Write Better Essays. Improve Your Writing Today!
Can you quickly and easily improve your writing? Absolutely! For over 20 years, I've taught these tips to students and seen their writing dramatically improve. Why? Using transition words helps you resist the habit of using a simple subject-verb sentence structure.Transitions link your ideas more effectively and create more nuanced meaning.Finally, transitions make your writing sound more professional and less like spoken language. How To Use Sentence Starter Lists The most important tip for improving your writing quickly is to follow one rule: Start every sentence in a paragraph with a different word.
Use the transition list as you write: Think about how the sentences in your paragraph are related to one another. Go through your first draft and circle the first word in every sentence.If you use the same word to start a sentence twice in a paragraph, then you need to choose another transition word and re-word the sentence. Choosing the Right Word. OWL Engagement. This resource was written by Jaclyn M.
Wells.Last edited by Allen Brizee on March 23, 2009 . Summary:This resource covers choosing appropriate, precise words for your GED essay. It also discusses how to avoid repetition and how to construct transitions. The fifth area readers will consider when evaluating your essay is word choice. It is important that the words you use be precise and that they express your ideas clearly. Choosing Appropriate Words To make sure your language is appropriate for the GED essay, avoid the following pitfalls. Original Paragraph When I started thinking about getting a new job, I was completely clueless. When I started thinking about getting a new job, I was overwhelmed by my options and unsure of what to choose. Choosing Precise Words When thinking about whether the language you use conveys the meaning you want, put yourself in your reader’s position.
Connotations: A connotation is an association that readers might have with a specific word. Avoiding Repetition. Online Guides: Sentence Starters, transitional and other useful words. Transition Words. Subordinate Conjunctions.