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Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 57 [writing/editing game]

Posted on July 17, 2016 by Marcia Riefer Johnston
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How would you tighten this week’s Challenge Sentence? “Often, the focus is on transferring meaning and vocabulary, so much so that…”
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Tagged Concise sentences, Concise writing, Conciseness, Editing, Filler words, Sentences, Singular they, Tight sentences, Tight writing, Writing

Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 56 [writing/editing game]

Posted on July 9, 2016 by Marcia Riefer Johnston
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How would you tighten this week’s Challenge Sentence? “This individual uses their understanding of the marketplace to advise and lead internal…” Continue reading →

Tagged Concise sentences, Concise writing, Conciseness, Editing, Filler words, Sentences, Tight sentences, Tight writing, Writing

Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 55 [writing/editing game]

Posted on July 3, 2016 by Marcia Riefer Johnston
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How would you tighten this week’s Challenge Sentence? “The adoption of virtualization technologies in the data center has opened the environment to a…” Continue reading →

Tagged Concise sentences, Concise writing, Conciseness, Editing, Filler words, Sentences, Tight sentences, Tight writing, Writing

Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 54 [writing/editing game]

Posted on June 25, 2016 by Marcia Riefer Johnston
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How would you tighten this week’s Challenge Sentence? “I thrive in environments where I interface with the public, learn new applications, develop…” Continue reading →

Tagged Concise sentences, Concise writing, Conciseness, Editing, Filler words, Sentences, Tight sentences, Tight writing, Writing

Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 53 [writing/editing game]

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Marcia Riefer Johnston
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How would you tighten this week’s Challenge Sentence? “Engineers have given the world many products of…” Continue reading →

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Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 52 [writing/editing game]

Posted on June 11, 2016 by Marcia Riefer Johnston
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How would you tighten this week’s Challenge Sentence? “The important thing to remember is that the analytics can be…” Continue reading →

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Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 51 [writing/editing game]

Posted on June 4, 2016 by Marcia Riefer Johnston
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How would you tighten this week’s Challenge Sentence? “An opportunity to scan for active voice should be taken as an opportunity to root out implicit bias toward…” Continue reading →

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Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 50 [writing/editing game]

Posted on May 28, 2016 by Marcia Riefer Johnston
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This week marks our semicentsentencial—half of a hundred sentences—celebration. How would you tighten this week’s Challenge Sentence? “I spent the school year in Austria in 1975–76 at ages…” Continue reading →

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Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 49 [writing/editing game]

Posted on May 21, 2016 by Marcia Riefer Johnston
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How would you tighten this week’s Challenge Sentence? “To monitor the potential impacts, [Company] carried out monitoring of benthic communities, including baseline surveys prior to…” Continue reading →

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Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 48 [writing/editing game]

Posted on May 14, 2016 by Marcia Riefer Johnston
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How would you tighten this week’s Challenge Sentence? “Mapping keywords to steps in the buyer’s journey makes SEO more important in ongoing marketing initiatives and also shows leadership that…”
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Word Up!
Want to write more powerfully? You've come to the right book. Word Up!--an eclectic collection of essays, more inspiration guide than style guide--serves up tips and insights for anyone who wants to write with more umph.
Written by: Marcia Riefer Johnston
Published by: Northwest Brainstorms Publishing
Date published: April 27, 2013
ISBN: B00CYSB2IK
Available in Ebook Paperback
You Can Say That Again
A light look at how we fill our writing, our speech, and our thoughts with needlessly repetitive (okay, just repetitive) words. Includes a list of 750 redundant phrases we hear and use--say it ain't so!--every day.
Written by: Marcia Riefer Johnston
Published by: Northwest Brainstorms Publishing
Date published: April 6, 2015
ISBN: B00VSBRB0M
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