5 Tips to help Improve your Writing Style
By: Garin Kilpatrick
Finding your own writing style can take a lifetime. But, don’t fret, we’ve identified 5 ways to immediately improve your writing style and effectiveness. Style helps create substance within every sentence. The following five tips are stepping stones on the path to stylistic success:
1. Use Stylistic Devices
Stylistic Devices are identifiable rules of thumb applied in literature. Alliteration is my favorite literary device and involves the subtle repetition of similar consonants and sounds.
2. Read Great Stylistic Examples
The full text of this essay by George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language is available online and provides great examples of style from a man who knows prose. The late Mr. Orwell was a master of style, as the many who have read his dystopic novel 1984 can attest.
3. Simplify, Simplify, Simplify (KISS theory)
KISS theory is an acronym for Keep It Simple Stupid. Though this theory seems frank it was actually a philosopher named Fredrich Nietzsche that helped spur its inception. Nietzsche was renowned for his style and wrote “brevity is the art of wit.” One way you can help train yourself to keep it simple is by tweeting on Twitter. Follow @eduify on Twitter for stylish writing tweets and updates, @eduifyWord for stylish words and @askeduify on Twitter if you have any eduify.com questions, such as how can I receive a free beta invite?
4. Discover and Use a Great Guide
The resources found on theThe Harvard University Online Writing Resource Guide you can be advised on writing strategy by Harvard scholars.
5. Create Vivid Images
A good Metaphor can strike your reader like a lightning bolt or rip them apart like a rabid bears. Beware of the dark alleys metaphors can lead you down and the comparisons you make will surely warm your readers like the sun.
