10 Tips to Improve Everything You Write for School, Work, and Life

This 90-page guide is meant to be a quick and easy way to improve anyone's writing. Teachers might want to use this for their own edification or to use in parts to help students with their writing process. The 10 tips are also helpful for everyday use, business writers, and creative writers.

Really, there are far more than just 10 tips as each one of the tips includes numerous other tips-within-tips and additional ideas on how to improve writing.

The material includes quotes from authors concerning each topic, links to resources, helpful images, reminders, suggestions, tip, tricks, notes, tables, recommendations, checklists, controversial issues (such as interobang and the Oxford comma), examples, lists, and other helpful material:

Table of Contents

Introduction

**Tip #1: Spelling

Common Homonyms:

**Tip #2: Grammar

Most Common Grammar Errors

Prepositions

Two-word Prepositions

Personal Pronouns

**Tip #3: Sentence Variety

Simple Sentences:

Compound Sentences

Complex Sentence

Compound-Complex Sentences

**Tip #4: Punctuation

Common Punctuation Errors

Standard Punctuation

**Tip #5: Passive Voice and Active Verbs

List of Helping Verbs

Passive Voice

**Tip #6: Words Matter: Diction and Wordiness

Diction

Examples

Extra Words and Wordiness

**Tip #7: Integrating Quotations

Selection of Quotation

How do you know when to quote?

Format

**Tip #8: Drafting

Steps to Drafting

Sources

Thesis

Introduction

Conclusion

**Tip #9: Right Brain / Left Brain

Hemispheres of the Brain and What They Control

**Tip #10: Testing It

Peer Review Checklist

The Steps

Bonus Tip: Shaping It