English 101

S45E6 – Personal Editing Cheat Sheets

Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don’t put too much trust in them. – Maxwell Perkins

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S26E9 – How to Avoid Crippling Your Language

Writing long sentences is like adding water to tea; the more words, the weaker the message. – Diana Booher

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S26 Bonus – Playing with Language

The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it. – Jonathan Culver

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S26E8 – When in Doubt, Leave it Out

I think sometimes we give people a lot of credit just because they’re writing nice sentences, even if it isn’t adding up to much. – James Patterson

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S26E7 – The Basics of Sentence Structure

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don’t know how to write sentences. – Tom Robbins

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S26E6 – Uh, Phrasing!

Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock. – B.J. Chute

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S26E5 – The Rules of Commas

The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it. – Lynne Truss

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S26E4 – The Parts of Speech (Part Two)

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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S26E3 – The Parts of Speech (Part One)

There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome. – Mark Twain

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S26E2 – The Basics of Formatting Styles

The beauty of type lies in its utility; prettiness without readability serves neither the author nor the reader. – James Felici

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