{"id":1862,"date":"2024-04-22T14:17:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T14:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/?page_id=1862"},"modified":"2024-07-06T19:34:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T19:34:57","slug":"checklist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/checklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Checklist: Bad Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>For improving later drafts<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Search for<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;<strong>I<\/strong>&#8221; &#8212; is it adding anything? (&#8220;I think,&#8221; &#8220;I can see that&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;I believe&#8221;)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<strong>You<\/strong>&#8221; &#8212; is it worth the shift it brings?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;-<strong>ly<\/strong>&#8221; &#8212; weak adverbs and intensifiers, and hedges <br>(<strong>mostly<\/strong>, <strong>usually<\/strong>, <strong>arguably<\/strong>, <strong>typically<\/strong>, <strong>probably<\/strong>, <strong>possibly<\/strong>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<strong>,<\/strong>&#8221; and &#8220;<strong>\u2014<\/strong>&#8220;: unnecessary commas; too many clauses set off by dashes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201c<strong>And<\/strong>,\u201d \u201c<strong>But<\/strong>,\u201d \u201c<strong>Still<\/strong>,\u201d &#8220;<strong>Indeed<\/strong>&#8221; \u2014 I tend to overuse these in beginning sentences.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other: &#8220;<strong>often<\/strong>&#8221; &#8220;<strong>quite<\/strong>&#8221; &#8220;<strong>various<\/strong>&#8221; &#8220;<strong>very<\/strong>&#8221; \u201c<strong>Another aspect\u2026\u201d<\/strong> &#8220;<strong>Actually<\/strong>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Views: 9<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For improving later drafts Search for Views: 9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1862","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1890,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1862\/revisions\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}