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Common Errors: Comma Splices and Run-On Sentences

By ELRG | February 15, 2016 |

Common Errors In everyday practice, most writers make a limited number of errors in the basics, but repeat those errors often. Below is a list of frequently occurring errors and corrections with techniques to prevent them. Writers produce run-on sentences with and without a comma, but the use of the comma as a splice is…

Common Errors: Subject-Verb Agreement

By ELRG | February 14, 2016 |

Common Errors In everyday practice, most writers make a limited number of errors in the basics, but repeat those errors often. Below is a list of frequently occurring errors and corrections with techniques to prevent them. Claire Cook, in Line by Line: How to Improve Your Own Writing, states: Errors in agreement, a singular subject…

Common Errors: Sentence Fragments

By ELRG | February 13, 2016 |

Common Errors In everyday practice, most writers make a limited number of errors in the basics, but repeat those errors often. Below is a list of frequently occurring errors and corrections with techniques to prevent them. Conventional sentences have a subject and predicate, and any departure should be clearly intentional. Skillful writers use fragments effectively…

DD Form 1610, REQUEST AND AUTHORIZATION FOR TDY TRAVEL OF DOD PERSONNEL

By ELRG | October 26, 2015 |

http://armywritingstyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/dd1610.pdf DD Form 1610 to download DD-1610 in .pdf format. Your web browser may stop to ask you if you wish to download this form. It might state at the top of your screen: “Internet Explorer Blocked This Site from Downloading Files to your Computer. Click Here for Options…” — and you will need to…

DA Pamphlet 600-67, Effective Writing for Army Leaders

By ELRG | October 24, 2015 |

Here is the now obsolete DA PAM 600–67 Effective Writing for Army Leaders This pamphlet provides staff writing standards and guidelines to Army leaders, and outlines two editing tools and one organizational technique for use by leaders in achieving those standards and for obtaining them from their subordinates. http://armywritingstyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/p600_67.pdf

Review: Effective Writing for Army Leaders

By ELRG | October 24, 2015 |

Last month (Sep 2015) in Military Review, editor Desirae Gieseman attemptds to redifine the Army writing standard in her article titled Effective Writing for Army Leaders. Ms. Gieseman surely has the chops to address this topic, after all she holds a BA from William Woods University with majors in French, business administration, and economics, and…

Army Awards Recommendation Processing

By ELRG | May 6, 2015 |

Awards and Decorations Branch Mission & Laws and Regulations U.S. Military Awards Peacetime & Wartime Awards Approval Authority Individual Decorations Purple Heart Combat Badges Unit Awards Campaign/Service Awards Routine Challenges in the Awards Program Awards and Decorations Branch Points of Contact http://armywritingstyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Awards_Recommendations_Processing_Slides_wms.pdf

Clear and Concise Sentences

By ELRG | April 9, 2015 |

Clear Concise Sentences A sentence consists of an arrangement of words to transmit a thought. The words you select, their clarity, conciseness, and how you arrange them directly affects whether your audience will understand your message. A clear and logical sentence is one that has both coherence and unity. A concise sentence expresses an idea…

PUT YOUR BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT

By ELRG | April 7, 2015 |

a. The purpose statement. Open with a short, clear purpose sentence. The purpose statement is not the same as the bottom line. It only tells the reader what to expect when reading the paper. A purpose statement does not tell the reader the conclusion(s) the writer draws. b. Thesis. The bottom line or thesis statement tells your…

PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE WRITING STYLE

By ELRG | April 6, 2015 |

a. Accuracy. Your work should represent only essential and accurate facts free of bias or distortion. b. Brevity and completeness. You must keep to essentials. Your writing should be brief and to the point. To cover a subject completely, while keeping the length of the paper to the absolute minimum requires careful analysis and probably…