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Something You Should Know

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The Five Things You Can Do to Shorten Your Sentence

If you're on the formal side of the tone scale, it could be very academic writing. And if you're called upon to do academic writing, you're not going to put a hundred exclamation points in it. You have to look at that and say, okay, what makes this good? Informal is conversational. It's very simple, simple sentences. Sometimes unconventional. But that scale runs all along there. So one of the first things you can do with any piece of writing you're doing is, what's the point? Can you name the point?"

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