From the course: A Crash Course in Writing Well: Learn to Write with More Style, Flair, and Impact

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The style dimension of your writing

The style dimension of your writing

From the course: A Crash Course in Writing Well: Learn to Write with More Style, Flair, and Impact

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The style dimension of your writing

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- So far in this section on editing with flair, I've shown you how to address the content and structure dimensions of your writing. In this lesson, I want to focus on the style dimension. And this lesson is going to be relatively short, because writing with style is basically what we've been talking about. Large parts of this course already. You see, what we're addressing when we're talking about the style dimension of your writing is the basic question: does this read well? Now, we've already got the content looking sharp and we've got a good structure in place, but how can we make the whole thing read really well? And that's where the issue of style comes in. And I already hinted earlier in the course at what style is in the context of writing, didn't I? Basically, style is the ability to create beautiful writing using the four ingredients. In other words, your writing has style when it's as simple, clear, elegant,…

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