Greetings, earthlings! This post will help out some of my fellow PR majors with some important fundamentals we face when writing.
Writing with Clarity
- Poor: Bobby cooked a meal for the cat of shrimp.
- Better: Bobby cooked a meal of shrimp for the cat.
Reducing Clutter
- Poor: All of the invited guests sat down at the dinner they were invited to.
- Better: All of the guests sat down at the dinner.
Sentence Variety
- Poor: Ashley is a public relations major. She enjoys communicating with people.
- Better: Ashley chose her major, public relations, because she enjoys communicating with people.
Sentence Emphasis
- Poor: My mother told me yesterday that the cat had died.
- Better: The cat died, my mother said.
