The document provides tips for improving writing style and structure, including using strong verbs and precise descriptive words, writing in the active voice with simple verb forms, and avoiding vague words. It encourages varying sentence structures and provides examples of rewriting sentences to incorporate the recommended techniques. The goal is to target readers effectively through clearer, more engaging writing.

1. Targeting Your Readers

2.  Usestrong  Usemeaningful
one-word and precise
verbs adjectives, adv
erbs, and
nouns

3. Researchers have found out that
this drug has serious side effects.
Researchers have discovered that
this drug has serious side effects

4. The best-selling author got a
contract to write two more novels.
The best-selling author signed a
contract to write two more novels.

5. Students are under intense
pressure to excel in academia.
Students face intense pressure to
excel in academia.

6.  Use synonyms
 Use active voice
 Use simple verb form

7. The librarian is at the library until
8pm.
The librarian remains at the
library until 8pm.

8. The women were prosecuted for
sorcery and witchcraft.
The colonial viceroyalty
prosecuted the women for
sorcery and witchcraft.

9. Witchcraft was altering social behavior by using
spells, charms, and potions
Witchcraft altered social behavior by using
spells, charms, and potions

10. There will be a long and painful process for
the improvement of the developing
country’s economy.
The developing country’s economy will
improve after a long and painful process.
Improved Verb and Sentence Structure

11. Verb Race: Exercise, page 1L, page 18 (do in 4
groups – one for each group).

12. This means that every organ and every cell are
the same age and are functioning as a single
unit.
This means that every organ and every cell
have the same age and function as a single
unit.

13. Medical research is using genetic engineering
to improve health treatments.
Medical research uses genetic engineering to
improve health treatments.

14. These questions are acute for each and every
one of us.
These questions remain acute for each and
every one of us.

15. Mitchelet’s research was adding to studies
conducted in the sixteenth century.
Mitchlet’s research contributed to studies
conducted in the sixteenth century.

16. Avoid informal spoken ones such as:
a lot of
some
good
awful
great
hardly
kind of
sort of
And many more, check chart on page 23.

17. The government has made good progress in
solving some environmental problems.
The government has made progress in
solving environmental problems.
Improved by Omitting the Vague words.

18. The results of a lot of different
projects have been pretty good.
The results of ten projects have
been accepted.