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This lesson provides provides practical writing tips 
on some of the basic principles of composition. 


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Following the seminal book, 
The Elements of Style by Strunk&White, 


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it summarizes these elements into 
a top 10 elementary principles of composition. 


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These 10 rules are: 


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Keep related words together
In summaries, keep to one tense 

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Place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end

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Avoid a succession of loose sentences

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Omit needless words


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Use definite, specific, concrete language

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Put statements in positive form

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Use the active voice


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Make the paragraph the unit of composition

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and Choose a suitable design and hold to it.