Writing

Five major principles

Characters as subjects

Use main characters in your “story” as the subjects of most of your sentences.

Actions as verbs

Express the main actions performed by or on the characters as verbs.

Old before new

Begin sentences with familiar information and end with information readers cannot predict.

Short before long

Begin with a short, easily grasped segment of information that frames the longer, more complex segments that follow. This applies to sentences, paragraphs, sections, and entire documents.

Topic then stress

Begin sentences with what they are about or comment on, then end with words that should receive special emphasis.

You write more clearly when you do the following:

• Match characters and actions to subjects and verbs
• Get the right cahracters into topics
• Stress the right words
• Motivate readers with well-crafted introductions
• Frame your paragraphs, sections, and documents to help readers grasp global coherence
• Be concise

Levels of sentence structure

Revision TLDR;

Quality docs

Sentence analysis

Characters and actions

Active vs passive

Cohesion and coherence

Emphasis

Concision

Shape