Comp Notes
Comp Notes is a podcast for college students in first-year writing courses. We'll cover the concepts you'll discuss in class, giving you a chance to reinforce or grow your understanding of them.
Comp Notes
Editing
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Mark Sutton
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This episode focuses on editing, the aspect of writing process in which we refine our sentences for style and clarity.
Transcript available here.
Additional Materials:
- Purdue OWL's "Concision"
- Purdue OWL's "Avoid Common Pitfalls." This page covers many elements that can make sentences harder to read, issues you'll want to focus on while editing.
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Writing Center's "Writing Concisely"
- "A Demonstration of Richard Lanham's Paramedic Method." The paramedic method was developed by Richard Lanham. It provides a systematic way to look for and recast elements that make sentences less concise. The link leads to a video I created on this model.
- Guide to Grammar and Writing's "The Passive Voice"
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte Writing Resources Corner's "Nominalizations: Know Them. Try Not to Use Them"
- Purdue OWL's "Strategies for Variation." This page focuses on strategies for varying the kind of sentences you write.
- Walden University OASIS's "Varying Sentence Structure"
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