How to Split and Simplify Your Complex Sentences

© 2009 Ugur Akinci Here is a sure-fire method to split your long sentences into shorter and more easily understandable ones: Split your sentences at conjunctions like “and”, “or”, “while”, “however”, “although” etc. Those are the connection points where one clause is linked to another. By breaking your clauses apart you can develop a simpler…

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How to Eliminate Redundant Words from Your Writing

© 2009-2010 Ugur Akinci Repeating an idea has its rightful place in article writing, essays, or journalistic writing. Even if you’re writing a technical article for engineers and scientists it pays to express the main idea once in the header (a must), then in the sub-header, another time in the opening paragraph, and lastly for…

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Optimizing for "Hot Keywords of the Day" – A Contrarian View

Here is a contrarian view on writing articles based on “hot keywords of the day”: I believe in making our articles 100% Search Engine Optimized to get the maximum attention of the search engine bots. That’s a must. There is no question about that. But I still cannot reconcile myself to start writing articles on…

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An Unexpected Dividend of Article Marketing…

Let me share the true story of something that happened to me thanks to article marketing… Over 2 years ago when I was writing articles on anything and everything that caught my fancy, I wrote an article about a world-class pianist after listening to one of his amazing performances on my car radio. I was…

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