Grammar

📝 Manuscript Assessment Criteria ☑️

📝 Manuscript Assessment Criteria ☑️


Notes and Treats As a printable tabulated form or checklist, the Manuscript Assessment Criteria presented by SoundEagle🦅 below can assist writers in evaluating and inspecting their own works (either by themselves or with a group of readers) before submitting their manuscripts to publishers, and also during successive edits after the previous submission(s) and before the […]

✅📝 10 Writing Guidelines to Adopt and 15 Grammar Goofs to Avoid 🧾❎

✅📝 10 Writing Guidelines to Adopt and 15 Grammar Goofs to Avoid 🧾❎


SoundEagle’s Writing Guidelines 1 Choose simple words or expressions over complicated or convoluted ones. Be concise. Be parsimonious in the number of words used to narrate a given situation. Words are like diamonds: when set properly they sparkle beautifully; when overused they become tawdry and boring. Consider each word as a cost: fewer words, less […]

⚠️ Use WITH Caution Or Not At All 📝📜

⚠️ Use WITH Caution Or Not At All 📝📜


No, Thank You If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why? As a preposition, with is supposed to be a simple, “innocent” word functioning in similar ways to those of other prepositions such as ‘in’, ‘at’, ‘over’, ‘under’, ‘toward’ and ‘before’: Having purchased a pizza with his […]