Some Choice Words: Building a Vocabulary Tuesday, January 19 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. CT Writing well means thinking clearly, and thinking clearly means making distinctions. And to make distinctions, we need words—a good reserve of nouns and verbs readily at hand to convey accurately the ideas we want to communicate. The next Writing Smartly seminar …
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Who and Whom, I and Me: What Does Case Mean in Grammar? Tuesday, January 12 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. CT Most of us have puzzled over which of these two constructions is correct: between you and I or between you and me. And many of us have convinced ourselves that we’ll never figure out the …
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Techniques of Revision: Converting a Phrase to a Clause Tuesday, January 5 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. CT This first Writing Smartly seminar of the new year will begin a series on techniques of revision. One such technique is to convert phrases to clauses. Our sentences are strong and crisp when we write an active scene …
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Revising by Structure: A Review Tuesday, December 29 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. CT This next Writing Smartly seminar will review a number of constructions we have looked at over the last few months and demonstrate how to apply them to some troublesome sentences. Knowing how to recognize grammatical parts helps us rearrange our sentences to …
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Swimming and Swimming: Words Ending in -Ing. Tuesday, December 22 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. CT What is the difference between a swimming coach and a swimming coach? Quite a lot, actually, from a grammatical point of view. Writing Smartly’s next seminar on Tuesday, December 22, will explain the difference between a present participle and a …