Something To Think About

This will teach you some of those terms you may have wondered about (or never knew). You may get a kick out of this one. I found it at another site (benjvm.blogspot.com) and he got it from someone else, but this is exactly where it belongs, so….
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How to Write Good:

1) Always avoid alliteration.
2) Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3) Avoid clichés like the plague.
4) Comparisons are as bad as clichés.
5) Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
6) Parenthetical marks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7) It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
8) Contractions aren’t necessary.
9) Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
10) One should never generalize.
11) As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
12) Don’t be redundant and don’t use more words that necessary; it’s highly superfluous.
13) Profanity sucks.
14) Be more or less specific.
15) Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
16) One word sentences? Eliminate.
17) Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
18) The passive voice is to be avoided.
19) Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
20) Who needs rhetorical questions?
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And there you have it. Any questions?

Mary Harrison has suggested a few more she recalls from Reader's Digest a few years back.

Don't use no double negatives.
Don't verb your nouns.