Writing: Ladder Of Abstraction

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

http://ol.scc.spokane.edu/jstrever/comp/Summer201/hw3.htm

Lotsa good advice in this essay.

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=78&aid=65978

More pointers here.

 

[jomar]

Interesting. Thanks.

 

[JackLuis]

Good info, JB.

Nice to see writing threads.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

You know this place! Most 'writers' here think a tab of LSD and a fat crayon are all they need.

 

[JackLuis]

You know this place! Most 'writers' here think a tab of LSD and a fat crayon are all they need.

Us hi tech authors don't even try to stuff the butcher paper in the little slots of the computer, to get published, though.

NorCal bush and a Pentium, works a whole lot better, and you don't see the purple witches as much either.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Us hi tech authors don't even try to stuff the butcher paper in the little slots of the computer, to get published, though.

NorCal bush and a Pentium, works a whole lot better, and you don't see the purple witches as much either.

What amazes me is, you can buy grammar-check software! In ten years we'll all be best sellers!

 

[JackLuis]

What amazes me is, you can buy grammar-check software! In ten years we'll all be best sellers!

Or dead.

 

[Tx Tall Tales]

Nice articles. Food for thought. The truth is, that's the kind of thing I'm often lurking here for...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Nice articles. Food for thought. The truth is, that's the kind of thing I'm often lurking here for...

I may do a thread about nifty modifiers that work!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/abstract.htm

ANOTHER GOOD TUTORIAL.