{"id":1076,"date":"2012-02-02T09:26:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T15:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/02\/new-guide-to-writing-and-revising\/"},"modified":"2012-02-02T09:27:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T15:27:03","slug":"new-guide-to-writing-and-revising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/02\/new-guide-to-writing-and-revising\/","title":{"rendered":"New guide to writing and revising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 20 years of teaching, writing, and editing, I have compiled a set of tips, tricks, and pet peeves that I share with students and colleagues. I&#8217;ve decided to make this writing guide more widely available in case others will find it useful. The emphasis is on scientific writing, but the same principles apply to most non-fiction (including journalism). The most recent version of the file is available from my personal website at <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/Z66gq\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/Z66gq<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first part of the guide gives some broad principles of effective writing. The next section provides suggestions for editing and revising a manuscript. After that comes a list of common writing mistakes and my pet peeves. The last section provides a revision worksheet. The worksheet is perhaps the most useful part of the writing guide. It is a systematic way to edit papers, progressing from high-level organization to the word level, with a box to check after you complete each step. By following the steps in the revision worksheet, your writing will be more concise, more precise, and easier to read.<\/p>\n<p>If you use this guide or the worksheet for one of your own revisions, I&#8217;d be curious to hear whether it helped you. If you have suggestions for future versions of this file, I&#8217;d love to see those too. Rather than posting comments here, please post them to the following page on Google+:  <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/gKjWj\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/gKjWj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Feel free to share the file itself with your students or fellow writers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 20 years of teaching, writing, and editing, I have compiled a set of tips, tricks, and pet peeves that I share with students and colleagues. I&#8217;ve decided to make this writing guide more widely available in case others will find it useful. The emphasis is on scientific writing, but the same principles [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}