So how do we produce readable and clean scientific writing? One of the good elements of style is to avoid adverbs and adjectives (Zinsser 2006). Adjectives and adverbs sprinkle paper with unnecessary ...

When you’re writing, adjectives give you the most flexibility to create a vivid picture. It’s also easy to slip into a cliche series of mundane, familiar adjectives. Describing Words helps inspire you ...

Adjectives should be rationed and adverbs questioned. When the Covid-19 was raging through the world, there was a poster: Is your journey really necessary? Let’s replace the word “journey” with ...

Lucinda McKnight receives funding from the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English. A report of a review of NAPLAN released in recent days cited the writing part of the test to be the most ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Adjectives have always been out there, mobs of them pressing on the outside walls, their faces against the ...

Elementary teachers can use these books to give students an easy entry point into writing now that winter break is over—and ...