To write well, you must practice writing.
Practice by itself isn't enough, however. To improve your writing, practice your technique. Precise writing is strong writing. Flabby writing is weak writing.
Just as athletes practice proper form in their training, so too do good writers practice proper forms in their writing.
Here are will be several tips to help strengthen your prose.
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Never bore your readers. A good writer can make a common subject interesting and new. An inexperienced writer may repeat the same words and ideas a thousand other writers have already written.
Find new ways to express yourself. Remove any phrase you've seen or heard more than twice. Avoid clichés — they're lazy. Create, don't repeat.
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In the active voice, the subject of a sentence performs an action directly. The opposite is the passive voice, in which the subject of the sentence has an action performed upon it. Though the passive voice is appropriate at times, it often robs power and clarity from sentences.
When possible, rewrite your sentences to make them active and direct.
The Passive Voice | Active and Passive Verbs | Revising Passive Constructions
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