Tag Archives: Style

8 Tips to Improve Your Writing Style

April 30, 2008 by aaron
Your writing style is your voice on the internet. Do you speak like James Earl Jones or Napoleon Dynamite? Remember that your words on the page are all that stand between you and your reader. They should catch the reader’s eye and draw them in. The following tips will help you improve your writing style. Find your voice. While styles grow and mature over time, there should always be some continuity in your writing.
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Custom Category Templates on a Archive or Index page.

April 23, 2008 by aaron
On my home page and in my archives, I use a custom category template to display asides and news articles. This is very easy to do and it only takes a couple seconds of work to create custom category templates in any WordPress theme. The first step is to add the following to your current theme’s index.php loop after the line that looks like <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>, but before any other code.
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8 Tips for Structuring Your Writing

April 29, 2007 by aaron
The structure of writing matters as much as the content because an overly loose structure is just as difficult to read and enjoy as badly written content. The following eight tips will help you to find your own specific writing style while providing a few “best practice” tips. These tips will apply to anything you write be it a blog post or dissertation. The introduction should be helpful and interesting. The first thing people will see in any type of writing is the introduction, and most people won’t read any further if the first couple sentences don’t interest them.
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8 Tips to Write Better Paragraphs

April 19, 2007 by aaron
Paragraphs are not just the thing you put five of in a longer essay, they are the unit of though and of idea. All things in life are made up of smaller things, and these smaller things are made up of even smaller things. In writing we begin with letters which combine to make words; words combine to make sentences; sentences combine to make paragraphs, and paragraphs combine to make things we don’t need to worry about here.
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8 Tips to Improve Your Writing Style

April 30, 2008 by aaron
Your writing style is your voice on the internet. Do you speak like James Earl Jones or Napoleon Dynamite? Remember that your words on the page are all that stand between you and your reader. They should catch the reader’s eye and draw them in. The following tips will help you improve your writing style. Find your voice. While styles grow and mature over time, there should always be some continuity in your writing.
Read More ⟶

Custom Category Templates on a Archive or Index page.

April 23, 2008 by aaron
On my home page and in my archives, I use a custom category template to display asides and news articles. This is very easy to do and it only takes a couple seconds of work to create custom category templates in any WordPress theme. The first step is to add the following to your current theme’s index.php loop after the line that looks like <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>, but before any other code.
Read More ⟶

8 Tips for Structuring Your Writing

April 29, 2007 by aaron
The structure of writing matters as much as the content because an overly loose structure is just as difficult to read and enjoy as badly written content. The following eight tips will help you to find your own specific writing style while providing a few “best practice” tips. These tips will apply to anything you write be it a blog post or dissertation. The introduction should be helpful and interesting. The first thing people will see in any type of writing is the introduction, and most people won’t read any further if the first couple sentences don’t interest them.
Read More ⟶

8 Tips to Write Better Paragraphs

April 19, 2007 by aaron
Paragraphs are not just the thing you put five of in a longer essay, they are the unit of though and of idea. All things in life are made up of smaller things, and these smaller things are made up of even smaller things. In writing we begin with letters which combine to make words; words combine to make sentences; sentences combine to make paragraphs, and paragraphs combine to make things we don’t need to worry about here.
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