Effective Writing
Dr. John's Eazy-Peazy Guide to Effective Writing can help you improve the effectiveness, and power, of your writing.
Effective writing is a language-based interaction between writer, reader, and text that promotes a sense of "reality," believableness, or involvement. According to Aldous Huxley, "Words are like X-rays, if you use them properly they'll go through anything. Read them and you're pierced." That's effective writing.
Richard Brautigan said effective writing is the use of language, imagination, and experience to communicate something for pleasure or information. Effective writing presents a precise statement or definition of meaning or intent. It is an explication or elucidation. An introduction of main characters or elements. A public showing of artistic intent or undertakings. Effective writing combines reasoning, analytical, and language skills to show your readers how you think and what you understand, as well as how you intend to solve problems and overcome obstacles.
In return, effective writing helps you synthesize ideas. It is a way of exploring the texture of life. A way of communicating an idea or position. A source of knowledge, opportunity, and power.
Use the menu at the left to navigate through Dr. John's Eazy-Peazy Guide to Effective Writing. Work from the top down, from the basic to the more complex, or skip around as you wish.