Common Errors: Comma Splices and Run-On Sentences
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…
Read MoreCommon Errors: Subject-Verb Agreement
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…
Read MoreCommon Errors: Sentence Fragments
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…
Read MoreDD Form 1610, REQUEST AND AUTHORIZATION FOR TDY TRAVEL OF DOD PERSONNEL
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…
Read MoreDA Pamphlet 600-67, Effective Writing for Army Leaders
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
Read MoreReview: Effective Writing for Army Leaders
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…
Read MoreArmy Awards Recommendation Processing
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
Read MoreClear and Concise Sentences
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…
Read MorePUT YOUR BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT
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…
Read MorePRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE WRITING STYLE
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…
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