You have at your fingertips a set of lessons in professional writing style that gives you explanations, examples, exercises, and answers for the following topics:
- Preferring Active Voice
- Denominalizing (turning verbs masquerading as nouns back into verbs)
- Trimming Fat
- Reducing Jargon
- Unraveling Adjective-Noun Strings, Reducing Preposition Sprawl
- Using Parallel Form
- Being Emphatic and Coherent
- Using Modifiers
- Choosing the Right Words
- Mastering Punctuation
- Using Ethical and Inoffensive Language
- Finding the Right Tone
These units of instruction build upon one another, and sometimes a lesson will refer to an earlier lesson. However, unless your instructor otherwise directs, you are free to work through these tutorials selectively, and in any order you choose. You know your own strengths and weaknesses. Maybe.
These lessons are fast paced and even a little fun. They will strengthen your stylistic powers no matter what your discipline, but they are particularly helpful if you are a student or professional in engineering, science, business, or technical communication. They will help make your writing clear, precise, and engaging.