Welcome to the Course!
  • Welcome from the Instructor
  • How to Make the Most of this Course
Writing Clearly for Publications, Work, and School
  • Economy Introduction
  • Redundancy
  • Phoney Intensifiers
  • Stretchers
  • Thickeners
  • Answers to Some Questions
  • Exercise #1
  • Exercise #2
How Dead Verbs Are Killing Your Writing
  • Verbs Introduction
  • Concrete Verbs
  • Weak Verbs
  • Dead Verbs
  • The Consequences of Dead Verbs
  • Exercise #3
Become an Active Writer
  • Active Voice Introduction
  • Active Voice
  • Passive Voice
  • The Morality of Passive Voice
  • Passive Voice Exceptions
  • Exercise #4
Create Pictures in Your Writing with Strong Nouns
  • Nouns Introduction
  • Nouns
  • Weak Nouns
  • Pronouns
  • When Pronouns Go Wrong
  • Exercise #5
How to be an Original Writer and Avoid Clichés
  • Original Writing Introduction
  • Clichés
  • Why Do People Use Clichés?
  • When It's Okay to Use a Cliché
  • Being Original
  • Exercise #6
  • Exercise #7
Prevent Train Wreck Sentences with Parallelism
  • Parallelism Introduction
  • Surface and Under the Surface Parallelism
  • Verb Series
  • Noun Series
  • Adjective Series
  • Adverb Series
  • Preposition Series
  • Multiple Element Series
  • Parallelism Conclusion
  • Exercise #8
  • Exercise #9
Freshen your Sentences with Patterns and Length Variation
  • Sentence Variation Principles
  • Sentence Patterns
  • Short Sentences
  • Long Sentences
  • The Variation of Long and Short for Effect
  • Exercise #10
Bonus Lecture
  • Big Discounts on My Other Courses