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AND full credit to American journalist William Safire for this advice on, How to Write Good:

 

Avoid run-on sentences they are hard to read.

 

No sentence fragments.

 

It behoves us to avoid archaisms.

 

Also, avoid awkward or affected alliteration.

 

Don't use no double negatives.

 

If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times: resist hyperbole.

 

Avoid commas, that are not necessary.

 

Verbs has to agree with their subjects.

 

Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.

 

Writing carefully, dangling particibles should not be used.

 

Kill all exclamation marks!!!

 

Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.

 

Poofread carefully to see if you any words out.

 

Take the bull by the hand, and don't mix metaphors.

 

Don't verb nouns.

 

Never, ever use repetitive redundancies.

 

Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

 

 

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