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- 2010.01.12: Tuesday Thought: Leading parts, type 1
- 2010.01.05: Tuesday Thought: Three ways to use dashes
- 2009.11.12: Overcome the biggest barrier to good writing: time
- 2009.02.17: Tuesday Thought: Which--as the subject opening a sentence
- 2009.01.06: Tuesday Thought: Subject-verb (dis)agreement # 1
- 2008.10.08: Tuesday Thought: Commas with introductory words, phrases, and clauses--Prepositional phrases
- 2008.09.09: Tuesday Thought? Increase or increase by?
- 2008.07.15: Tuesday Thought: Him dying, his dying
- 2008.06.24: Tuesday Thought: This or that?
- 2008.06.03: These--or them, or they
- 2008.05.01: Thursday Tip: What's the point?
- 2008.04.15: Tuesday Thought: Seeming synonyms--historic and historical?
- 2008.03.27: Thursday Tip: Fragments
- 2008.03.25: Tuesday Thought: Only if... if only
- 2008.03.21: Thursday Tip: Three ways to use dashes
- 2008.03.13: Thursday Tip: Repeating a structure
- 2008.03.11: Tuesday Thought: Stark attachments 4
- 2008.03.06: Thursday Tip: Repeating a sound
- 2008.03.04: Tuesday Thought: Stark attachments 3
- 2008.03.03: Thursday Tip: Repeating a root
- 2008.02.26: Tuesday Thought: Stark attachments 2
- 2008.02.21: Thursday Tip: Repeating a key term
- 2008.02.19: Tuesday Thought: Stark attachments 1
- 2008.02.14: Thursday Tip: Using verb-free elements to add pace
- 2008.02.13: Tuesday Thought: Weak nouns
- 2008.02.07: Thursday Tip: Using colons to link elaborations
- 2008.02.05: Tuesday Thought: Slashing sentinel nouns
- 2008.02.01: Thursday Tip: Using semicolons to link closely related ideas
- 2008.01.29: Tuesday Thought: Where have all the that's gone? 4
- 2008.01.24: Thursday Tip: Starting sentences with and's, but's, or or's
- 2008.01.23: Tuesday Thought: Where have all the that's gone? 3
- 2008.01.17: Thursday Tip: Paired conjunctions, and when not to use them
- 2008.01.15: Tuesday Thought: Where have all the that's gone? 2
- 2008.01.10: Thursday Tip: Extra conjunctions, omitted conjunctions
- 2008.01.08: Tuesday Thought: Where have all the that's gone?
- 2008.01.03: Thursday Tip: Deft connections 1 -- Order series from short to long
- 2008.01.02: A New Year's resolution for A Blog about Writing Clearly
- 2007.12.24: The dirty little secret of professional editors: there is no secret
- 2007.12.17: How to convey tone, style, and message in a single sentence
- 2007.12.10: Are your paragraphs powerful?
- 2007.12.03: Don't try to write for 6 billion people--and other keys to effective planning
- 2007.11.26: Overcome the biggest barrier to good writing--time
- 2007.11.05: The two most important qualities of effective writing
- 2007.10.29: For good writing, look beyond correct grammar
- 2007.10.22: ClearWriter's story; how to cut 2,200 pages to 600
- 2007.10.15: How to write clearly and quickly--a system in three parts