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I don't agree to all these suggestions.
How to write Good (That's how Ernest Hemingway wrote, although I myself don't like using the word in this way either.)
Just came across this list of points that I hope will help one or two of you out there in the undertow:
1. Avoid alliteration always, but sometimes it's deliberately used in poetry.
2. Prepositions are fairly good words to end sentences with. You can see them being used frequently by professional authors.
3. The passive voice is to be avoided when it doesn't sound well.
4. Avoid clichés like the plague. They’re old hat.
5. It is not wrong to occasioanally split an infinitive in order to, for example, emphasise something.
6. Writers should never generalize. So if you want to write about grammar, you should think twice to avoid so doing.
Seven Be consistent. And use punctuation appropriately.
8. Don’t use more words than necessary. It’s utterly superfluous, espeically when some writers try to write pretentiously.
9. Be more or less specific. For example, I would have agreed with most of the view points here, if they had been more specific.
10. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement in some articles in which such a style is not appreciated.
Good luck!
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