Talk:English Composition Tips
From digmovements
[edit] Comments from First Drafts
- Unpack convoluted sentences
- turn run on sentences into connected sets of short ones
- Add footnote documentation
- Incorporate Tilly exercise
- talk about the movement for reform, not just the injustice the movement seeks to address
- Incorporate website close analysis exercise
- talk about online presence and use of web for action
- Edit for style
- simplify verbal constructions
- eliminate unnecessary words
- unmix metaphors
- limit first person expressions
- pi sign means insert a paragraph
- Add wiki style headings to mark major divisions
- rewrite introduction using these headings to signpost the reader
- place your signpost paragraph at the transition from introduction to body
- Print and reread the paper when all else is done
- then rewrite your conclusion one last time
[edit] Adding your paper to the wiki
- Place your paper on its own wiki page
- Add illustrations
- Format footnote documentation
- Place bibliography of sources used at the bottom
- Add links where appropriate
- internal links to your other pages
- external links that illustrate or refer to your prose
