Blog Introduction

This blog is for college students who wish to improve how they write. College students are welcome to use this blog to study better writing. For better writing, the help articles within this blog teach college students what they will use in the creative writing and technical writing career fields.

On the blog, students in college will find practice problems that will make them feel confident of their ability to find and remove mistakes in written works. The practice problems come with an answer key found on this blog. On the blog, the answer key is on the top row, third button from the left.

Most importantly, this blog encourages and gives college students that necessary freedom to ask for the live writing help that this blog’s owner provides free of charge. The live writing help works through the support software called Zopim.

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To Request Live Writing Help

1. In the bottom right corner, find the live writing help button
• If the button is gone, disable any adblock or privacy add-ons in your browser (Adblock Plus, Ghostery, NoScript, etc.,)
2. Leave a message with your given name or nickname and specifically your question about writing
3. Wait for a reply
• If the blog owner is away, expect a reply within 1-2 business days
• If the blog owner is online, expect a reply within one hour unless the blog owner is busy

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Conclusion

This blog focuses on the top five most common writing errors. These top five most common writing errors were found in 300 undergraduate papers in a 1988 case study (Connors, R. J., & Lunsford, A. A., 1988). The most common writing errors were in the usage of commas.

This blog covers style issues that turn text into weasel writing. Weasel writing is text that makes readers work harder to learn the text’s meaning. Readers must be able to learn the meaning easily when they read, and for technical writers this task is their daily job. Technical writers will learn methods that will make their writing clear, concise, and effective. Creative writers will learn ways to shorten the time they have to spend on drafts.

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