This #Watch focuses on revision strategies that will strengthen your writing. Strong verbs can improve everything that you write. They are particularly helpful in your job application documents, since those strong verbs show off your capabilities.
I’m sharing this video today because you can apply these ideas to your Analysis project. In some of the columns of your table, you will most likely use fragments. Here’s an example for the kinds of writing I do:
| Kind of Writing | Description |
| Syllabus |
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The verbs in the Description column strengthen the document. Just as a reminder: Your tables should include more information than just description.
Find out more about how to revise for strong verbs by watching the video (2m10s).
Note: This video has closed captioning, so it does not need a transcript.
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Using strong verbs, will help keep the writing of the project more concise and easier to read for the audience. I’m excited to practice this tip when I start my assignment!
I tend to spend a lot of my time during revision identifying and altering my passive verbs. I dislike using “has” unless I’m talking about someone possessing something, because I feel that it really weakens the point I am trying to make.
This video made me realize that I am one of the people who turns verbs into nouns. I can see how this makes it confusing for the reader and I will do my best to try and be cognizant of these problems in the next assignment.
Strong verbs force clarity into your writing. I struggle using strong verbs because I model my writing off of how I speak. This usually makes my writing a little witty, but my precision and clarity of the subject is lost.
I am certainly guilty of having too many words between the subject and the main verb in sentences. Although the example in the video was still difficult to fully comprehend after reading it once, I can see how moving the main verb closer to the beginning of a sentence can have a positive impact on my writing. This was a useful post to me. I will watch out for strong verbs hiding as nouns in my writing.
I think strong verb hooks the reader attention and makes the writing tighter where weak verbs lead to have longer writing. I will definitely do this for this assignment.