Writing 2111F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Block Quotation, Topic Sentence, Active Voice

• School: Western University
• Department: Writing
• Course: Writing 2111F/G
• Professor: Melanie Chambers

Document Summary

In business writing you want to use plain language: not fine writing , e. g. The tardiness of the inventory was unacceptable : sounds elite, not too casual but not too elite (trying to be something you are not) If it goes too much one way or the other, then it is problematic. Ing one item problems : this is not a parallel construction because perusing ends with - ing which check does not. If you are writing something that will be read on a screen, you need fewer words because it takes people 25% longer to read something on a screen. Venus which was painted by raphael; and the david which was painted by. Uccello: when you elaborate on the list, you must use the semi colon. If you just used commas, you wouldn"t be able to tell what the descriptions apply to. Appendix a: sentences types, agreements, comma splice, and commas.