Sentences with phrase «writing crutches»

Thanks to BriefCatch, I employ my worst writing crutches less often and use more of the simple, forceful prose favored by top legal writers.»

I found Caitlin to be a skilled technician, capable of spotting all of my crappy little writing crutches and tics, allowing me to scrub away imperfections and pretend I'm something better than I am.

As editor Michaela Hamilton said in an revision letter: Don't resort to... Continue reading Writing crutches: gestures →

I avoid them unless absolutely necessary as, to my eye, they're a writing crutch.

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YOU WROTE: If I can't explain it's a god is a crutch christianity has been using for far too long.

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In the world of comedy, vulgarity is often a crutch for bad writing, and boy, is this film bad, and therefore, it goes very vulgar to try to get laughs.

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We need to learn to write better games, not use wild concepts as crutches.

«Literally,» however, is just one of many crutch words, and Doll walks through 13 others — some of which I painfully recognize from my own writing and that of many of the law bloggers that I read:

Some of Doll's crutch words that appear in legal writing are: actually, apparently, as it were, basically, definitely, essentially, going forward, in the final analysis, obviously, really, seriously, ultimately, and very.