Avoiding the Word Salad Bar

Gregg Hake has some advice for avoiding "word salad," that mixture of unintelligible, incoherent, empty words.

 

The short article has some best practices and exercises for writing and for avoiding word salad, such as watching a movie or reading a magazine article that's more 50 years old to see how writers said things back in the day. Click here to read Word Salad or Le Mot Juste?: How to Speak and Write Better by Gregg Hake (2010).

 

Hat tip to Michael Goldblatt.

 

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