Writing Tips

Dear Visitor: Our "Tips, Tools & Ideas to Improve Your Writing" was first introduced as free content some seven years ago, in the Spring of 1996. Its popularity grew steadily, through "word of mouse," to the point that each month more than 25,000 users were accessing the content, with the number ever increasing.

All of that "bandwidth" (user activity) was costing money to pay our Web hosting company. We tried a voluntary donation system but that didn't work. So now we are obliged to require a nominal payment of $1.50 for access to this resource.

For your buck-fifty, you get lifetime access to the complete resources of WritingTips.com, the menu of which you can view below. Of that $1.50, approximately 50 cents goes to Amazon.com, for its part in collecting the fee. The remaining dollar goes to help defray the costs of maintaining the service.

A $1.50 contribution, in exchange for lifetime access to the material here, has got to be some kind of record for good value. But if you're in a position to contribute a little more (say, $2, $3 or $5), that would of course be most welcome and appreciated! (The Amazon system will let you enter whatever amount you choose.)

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1. Gems to enthrall and inspire
2. Test your writing IQ: a three-question quiz
3. Seven tips for more effective writing
4. A simple, six-part method for choosing term paper topics
5. The single biggest mistake students (and most others) make when writing essays
6. Active voice versus passive voice
7. Less is more: striving for simplicity of expression
8. When to quote and when to paraphrase
9. Word order in sentences
10. How are punctuation marks like traffic signs?
11. When a single comma made the difference between life and death
12. Using lists to improve your business writing
13. Fun with English: discovering palindromes
14. Pet peeves & peccadillos
15. Professional writers’ secrets to becoming a professional writer
16. Free online research & writing resources
17. Food for thought: quotation potpourri
18. “Truth is stranger than fiction”
19. Student “Bloopers”
20. Best college application essay we’ve ever read
21. The single greatest secret to good writing