Sentences with phrase «bad writing habits»

Jesse Hogin: «This — Writing Workout program both remedied bad writing habits that I had picked up and taught me new ways of delivering a clearer point.»

I explained to the students that they've just spent three years in one of the worst places to learn how to write well — law school — and that they now have to start unlearning all the bad writing habits that legal education creates.

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I have a feeling some frustrated new writer may have made some of this stuff up to justify bad writing habits.

I have a feeling some frustrated new writer may have made them up to justify bad writing habits.

I am however interested in keeping smart, honest bloggers from tripping over their own bad writing habits and making their valuable insights difficult to digest.

In addition to the War and Peace problem, I've surmised that this bad writing habit for nonfiction stems from these reasons: Looking for Authority.

Not exact matches

And even though I started off strong, I soon started missing days until I was back to my old bad habit of writing inconsistently.

«Having this realization didn't mean I needed to wallow in every unhelpful habit and self - destructive pattern; it meant that I could stop thinking about «bad» traits as if they were alien, loathsome flaws that I had to stamp out entirely,» she wisely writes.

Hey pal, you know... I've been trying to break you of that bad habit of yours of «writing in the aboveness»

We of who does speak and write and read based upon the KING's English have many variants of the Hebrewic doctines yet it is not in our edifying of such doctrines but like you stated above did write, «Christians have a bad habit of not translating the Bible well» is an exact truth!

«Nursing to sleep is no more a «bad habit» than peeing in a diaper,» Markham writes.

When I wrote about bad habits we all make that lead to burning ourselves out, I didn't think I'd get the kind of response I would get.

As the Times» Nick Confessore wrote recently, the candidate has a bad habit of micromanaging his campaign, and that extends to handling reporters.

So, I mindfully chose to replace bad habits with good habits: like waking up to affirmations and writing for four hours before I checked email.

Be honest with yourself and write down all the bad habits you have.

My top tips are to set SMART goals and write them down, quit bad habits (smoking, drinking, eating junk food), hire a coach, weight train five to six days a week (even if that means doing body weight exercises in a hotel room and using luggage as a giant dumbbell) and eating every three hours religiously.

(That might be a bad habit to have... I'm a stationery hoarder...) And then, fast forward to the first week (or second if I'm late) of December of the next year, I go through my address book and write greetings, and put a Christmas postage stamp on the envelopes and off they go, winging their way across the country!

This module includes engaging activities on good and bad listening and speaking habits, the impact of non-verbal communication and the importance of good written communication in any job search.

This particular lesson includes following activities: list of habits to discuss discussion questions - how to stop a bad habit writing find someone who dialog completion

Having your worked critiqued early in the writing process enables you to avoid developing bad habits through repeated mistakes, and will save you months of wasted writing time.

Do you think your writing habits are good or bad?

It didn't take me long to realize that every single issue he had with the book was something I'd added at the request of critique groups.Trying to please everybody in my writing groups can lead to bad habits.

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Poor credit habits like writing bad checks, failure to repay debt, and late payments are some of the contributing factors to a poor score.

This is one of my worst habits and I often find I'm trying to write emails, update Twitter and complete an article — all at the same time.

Again, I am usually very impressed with your writing and grasp of the issues, but sometimes you fall back into bad habits... very disappointed.

As recently as this morning, Dan Nosowitz of Gawker wrote this post about the problems of large fridges, and about how they encourage bad eating habits.

The problem lies with what they read: 95 % of what students are assigned has been written by judges and law professors, and lawyers learn to imitate and replicate their bad habits.

Frustration at the turgid, pedantic, Latin - filled, jargon - ridden, misspelt, ungrammatical, and inelegant writing that issues from the pens and keyboards of lawyers, law students, and those who come within their orbit (assistants can have an unfortunate tendency to replicate the bad habits of those they work with).

Last year, I attended a professional workshop where the instructor asked us to write out our worst habit.

We asked three career coaches and resume writing experts for the top mistakes they see over and over, and how you can break these bad habits to make your resume stand out from the rest — in a good way.