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How to make your writing precise

How to make your writing precise

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How to make your writing precise

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- In this lesson, you're going to learn how to improve your writing by nailing down your meaning really precisely. By the end of it, you should know how to avoid leaving your readers confused by sentences that may be too murky or too fuzzy to immediately click. Let's start by looking at an example of a really unclear sentence from a blog post that I made up. "World-renewed author Jack Bliss said today Nine Days is a new book that was mostly written in the basement during a book signing, although with the rest of the chapters that would've been written in a nearby park." Now this has got just so much wrong with it in terms of clarity, right? Go ahead and pause the video and see if you can spot, first of all, how many things, in terms of clarity, are wrong with it? Write those things down if it helps. Okay, done that? Well, first off, there's an actual mistaken word in there, right, it should be world-renowned,…

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