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5 Day to Better Writing - Group 1
Day 1 - How to Quickly Improve Your Sentence Structure
How to Fix Comma Splices, and When to Use Them Deliberately (6:01)
How to Use Parallel Structure to Enhance Reader Comprehension and Pleasure (5:42)
How to Detect Sneaky Problems with Subject-Verb Agreement - Even Good Writers Make These Mistakes (7:22)
Day 2 - How to Write with Clarity
How to Avoid Making Fuzzy Comparisons (5:20)
How to Avoid Ambiguity When Using Pronouns - These are more common than you think (6:43)
How to Avoid Squinting Modifiers So Your Readers Don't Get a Headache (4:06)
Day 3 - How to Stop Being Wordy and Write More Concisely
How to Omit Needless Words - 30 Examples and Revisions
How to Trim Prepositional Phrases for Leaner Writing
Day 4 - How to Handle the Problem of Confusing Words
How to Handle the Problem of Commonly Confused Words (7:07)
Day 5 - Stop Trying to Sound So Smart
How Using Fancy Words Can Make Your Writing Sound Dull - And What to Do Instead (5:56)
How to Eliminate Zombie Nouns to Bring Life to Your Writing
How to Avoid Squinting Modifiers So Your Readers Don't Get a Headache
Quiz Instructions
Identify the squinting modifier in each of the following sentences.
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