The sixteenth chapter of The Bedford Researcher, titled Writing With Style, is split into two sections. The first section begins with how to write concisely, specifically by getting rid of unneeded modifiers and introductory phrases that will just make your writing style more clunky as a whole. This section then goes into when to use active and passive voices, as well as how to use an active voice while still remaining passive. Finally, this section finishes up with reminding the reader to choose their words carefully, specifically by making sure that your word choice is formal enough for the audience, the language in your writing is such that the audience would understand, and that there is a variety of words used to say the same thing in your writing.
The second and final section of this chapter talks about how to polish your writing style, and gives a number of things to improve upon. It begins with telling the reader that one of the easier areas to being polishing their style is by varying their sentence structure. The section then goes into creating effective transitions between topics and how to introduce other authors effectively. The section takes a turn here, and begins to talk about how to avoid sexist language (such as referring to a profession as male only) before finishing up the section by basically saying to read everything for examples of what you would and wouldn’t want to write like.
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