(www.inkthinkerblog.com) — My pal Susan Gunelius has a killer article on Entrepreneur.com about the importance of effective writing (versus letter-perfect, unfailingly grammatical writing). Her recommended rules to break:
- Don’t use contractions.
- Prepositions are unacceptable to end your sentences with.
- Don’t use no slang, dawg.
- No sentence fragments.
- Once-sentence paragraphs are not okay.
Read Susan’s article, Copywriting Grammar Ain’t Perfect.
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I won’t, dawg. :))
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Thanks, Kristen!
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I really want to add, “stop it with the strange orphaned endings”. Love to see that period “inside the quotes.”
only writing my own copy at the moment, but I like to make up/break rules…
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I love it when writers break the rules…but only when it’s done effectively. I get really upset at the grammar police when they see a fragment in another’s work and simply cannot grasp the fact that it was done stylistically. It’s like they stamp a big ol’ red “FRAG” and you want to slap them in the head afterward.
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