{"id":1308,"date":"2023-09-08T14:15:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T18:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/?page_id=1308"},"modified":"2023-09-08T15:36:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T19:36:23","slug":"concise-writing-strategies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/concise-writing-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Concise Writing Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Elizabeth Blomstedt<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Assignments &amp; Activities Archive<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Blomstedt-AAA-contribution.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Blomstedt-AAA-contribution.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-a7960e4e-be90-41a4-91c6-41c46bdc6e14\" href=\"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Blomstedt-AAA-contribution.pdf\">Blomstedt-AAA-contribution<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Blomstedt-AAA-contribution.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-a7960e4e-be90-41a4-91c6-41c46bdc6e14\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Activity Description<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Students often rely on writing strategies that make their writing wordy and bloated\u2014sometimes subconsciously, sometimes to make their writing sound more sophisticated, and sometimes to meet word count. Presenting students with concrete strategies for making their writing more direct, clear, and concise increases student awareness of their own wordy writing habits and makes a case for the benefits of writing concisely. This activity presents students with five sentence-level habits that make writing wordy and shows them how to revise these to make their writing more concise. I\u2019ve arranged this information in a \u201cConcise Writing Strategies\u201d handout (see Appendix) that includes sample revisions and sentences that students can practice revising themselves. The handout ends with a section that asks students to apply these strategies to a draft of their own writing or writing from one of their peers. This activity is most effective when taught shortly before final drafts of a writing project are due (after content has been solidified) because it focuses on writing style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Blomstedt Assignments &amp; Activities Archive Activity Description Students often rely on writing strategies that make their writing wordy and bloated\u2014sometimes subconsciously, sometimes to make their writing sound more sophisticated, and sometimes to meet word count. Presenting students with concrete strategies for making their writing more direct, clear, and concise increases student awareness of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[542,213,9,426],"tags":[162,627,625,11,626],"class_list":["post-1308","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-activities","category-drafting-and-revising","category-grammar-and-mechanics","category-style","tag-concise","tag-conciseness","tag-sentence-revision","tag-style","tag-syntax"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1308\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}