John McPhee: DOs and DONTs

Frame of Reference

DOs

  • Write for ages
  • Allude to advance your comprehensibility

DONTs

  • Assume everyone uses the same vocabulary
  • Assume that everyone has seen everything you’ve seen
  • Assume anyone thinks the way you think
  • Write out time without a reference
  • Make references to complex ideas

Draft No.4

DOs

  • Tell about the good part
  • Write drafts about 3 0r 4 times over
  • Read out loud when editing
  • Be grammar cautious

DONTs

  • Assume the process of writing is short
  • Assume synonyms have the same “hue” as other words

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