Write Better Right Now
This online training course will teach you writing techniques that will help you write powerful and persuasive American English. For your writing to be impactful, you must structure your sentences correctly and put the right types of words in the right places. Nouns, verbs, clauses, passive voice, contractions, and more will all be covered. We know this is triggering bad memories from your middle school and high school English classes, but you are more committed than you were then, and you've never had Ed Good as an English teacher before.
Course Outline
Introduction
Meet Ed Good and his band of merry "AI" assistants. These assistants are built with artificial intelligence and will help Ed teach the course. No one wants to listen to one person talk for 15 hours! Ed will set the table and then the grammar feast will begin.
Meet the Mighty Verb
Transitive Verbs, Active and Passive Voice, Intransitive Verbs, The No-Action Verbs, The Verb "To Be", Linking Verbs, Auxiliary Verbs (Primary and Modal), and Where to Put Adverbs in Compound Verbs.
Includes 3 interactive exercises.
See What Verbs Can Do
The Conjugated Verb, The Infinitive Phrase, Splitting Infinitives, Present Participial Phrase, Past Participial Phrase, One-Word Verbal Adjectives.
Includes 4 interactive exercises.
Choose Your Nouns Carefully
The Trap of "Nouniness", The Trap of "Fuzziness", Let Abstractions Act.
Two interactive exercises.
"To Be" or Not "To Be"
E-Prime Language, Swatting Your "Be's", Edit the Lawyers, Kicking the "Be" Habit, Ed's world-famous 2,292 Words and No "Be's".
Two interactive exercises.
Use Passives Strategically
Origin of the Passive Voice, Only Transitive Verbs Have "Voice", How to Fom the Passive Voice, A Conjugation in the Passive Voice, Beware the Convention Wisdom, Where the Passive Voice "Is Preferred" (8 situations), Beware the Addiction.
One interactive exercise.
Less is More - Cut Clauses Down to Phrases
Clauses and Phrases, Three Types of Dependent Clauses, Words Starting Adjective Clauses, The Difference Between "That" and "Which", "Who", "Whom", and "Whose", "Who" vs. "Whom", When Do You Use "Whose"?, Phrases - 6 Byproducts of Clause Cutting, "Which Hunt" - Use the Correct Word, "Which Hunt" - Cut "Be" Clauses, "Which Hunt" - Cust Action-Verb Clauses, Two Power Structures You Must Use, Do Writers Really Use Noun Absolutes?, When Should You Use a Noun Absolute.
Three interactive exercises.
Eleven Rules on Writing Killer Sentences
We won't spoil this one for you!
Two interactive exercises.
Conclusion
See you next time!
Write Better Right Now!