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For Nigerian Authors, Publishers and Book Publicists - Call for Submissions: New Books Nigeria

  New Books Nigeria is portal for promoting new Nigerian writing; books by Nigerian Authors or published in Nigeria, or which are set mainly in Nigeria. At New Books Nigeria…

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Official Announcement: The 9th Mike Okonkwo National Essay Competition

Deadline: 27 May 2012 The submission of entries for the 9th edition of the Mike Okonkwo National Essay Competition with the topic \"Dependence of The Nigerian Economy on Crude Oil:…

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SPROUTERS is an annual mentorship project, running from January to December, launched to groom Nigerian teens and young adult female writers on the art of creative writing. To celebrate the…

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"Creative writing is anything where the purpose is to express thoughts, feelings and emotions rather than to simply convey information." - DailyWritingTips SPROUTERS is now accepting applications for her 2012…

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WHAT WILL BE THE GREATEST CHALLENGE FACING YOUR GENERATION OVER THE NEXT DECADE?

 The Economic downturns, political crisis and worldwide environmental degradation are only a minor threat in the face of the challenge of having a generation with a closed mind. This present…

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Charolette BronteRecently, I wrote about word patronage, the often-unnecessary inclusion of self-referential expressions as “as you will” and “so to speak” in one’s writing. This post expands on that one to recommend that you inspect your writing for anything that smacks of spoken English.

 

If you’ve ever seen a transcript of an extended discourse — a written record of someone’s comments, rather than the prepared script for a speech — you’ll understand how widely spoken and written English can diverge.

 

Spontaneous speech, at least, is riddled with qualifications and equivocations. It’s easy enough to dispose of “um”s and “uh”s, “well”s and “you know”s when converting a transcript to an essay, but writers should purge their prose of other utterances, words, and phrases as well that add a lot to a word count but little to a description or an argument. (See this post, for instance, for a list of adjectival intensifiers and their adverbial forms to avoid.)

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