Chapter1 & 2 Scared me!
I mean so I think alot when I am reading. It helps me understand the overall concept of what I am trying to understand I guess. Weird okay!
I found the statment that was quoted from the text about "slight rewording produces dramatic result so true." I trend to be a wordy writer which gets me no where except with a bunch of extra inforamtion and unclearness of the overall topic or purpose of what I am writing about.
I also found the Mark Twain, who also had writing experience, once told a young corespondent, "When you catch an adjective, kill it." I found that valuable because it isn't something I think about or consider doing. I write what come to mind and let that be the end of it. I also found it interesting how the text stated the adjectives you will use less modfiers. Which in long-term could lead to an advantage.
Some really helpful information that I thought would even help with my profile and news releases that I have been completing over the weekend was the three questions.
1. Have I said what I meant?
2. Have I put it as concisely as possibele?
3. Have I put things as simply as possible?
You must not write for the readers understanding, but make sure you as a writer have goten your point across that you want them to understand in the end.
I think I am going to consider picking words wisely!
The questions that you produced are excellent because of how they zoom in on what you are trying to say without have all of those additional words. I wrote a blog about newspapers and fluff. No one wants to read fluff in a news article because we would rather read the facts to quickly find out what occurred and what the result was. I believe that Cappon wrote the first two chapters in order to describe what we should and should not be writing or looking for when writing. Overall, I am glad that you are now able to look at your writing and discover what is wordy and/or what needs to be cut. Good Job!
I chose your blog for my reflection. News Worthiness vs. News Wordiness