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14 Apr, 6 tweets, 4 min read
Let me tell you a little APPLICATION WRITING secret.

"Try to turn your ADJECTIVES to DATA."

For example:
I improved sales SIGNIFICANTLY.
I improved sales by 60%.

Very important in application writing. CV. Resume. SoP. Cover Letter. LinkedIn Profile.

RT. Check the next tweet.
Adjectives are the most abused words in writing. Adjectives can lighten up novels and stories. However, they bring a lot of ambiguity and "suspicion" to corporate writing.

In business, everyone wants RESULTS, and not sweet words.

Write measurable PROOFS. Don't exaggerate.
If you have enough time, you can decide to use many adjectives with proofs.

We added more butter to the pizza which made is softer. We also baked it for 10 minutes to give it a brighter look. We decided to add sugar in this batch to make them sweeter.

SOFTER. BRIGHTER. SWEETER
Each of these adjectives have measurable proofs that support them. Imagine, "We did a lot of work to make the pizza softer, brighter and sweeter."

Good for a novel. Bad for a pitch or application document.

Each time you're doing an APPLICATION WRITING, always question your...
...adjectives.

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WRITING HACK - WORD CONSISTENCY

Every good writing have a uniform representation of words or number format that appear more than once. Word consistency is simply the act of writing one word, abbreviation or number format the same way throughout the text.

See these examples:
"The President announced a new social intervention scheme on Monday, 5th April 2021. The scheme is expected to begin on April 20th 2021."

Did you notice the formats of the dates?
The second one had no "Monday" and the position of the day "20th" changed. That's inconsistency.
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Did you see UNDEREMPLOYMENT? One has hyphen and the other doesn't.
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WORD ORDER IN WRITING
How you position words in a sentence can affect the meaning or readability of the sentence. A lot of English writers miss it when using multiple adjectives.
See:
I love this Spanish small old book.
I love this small, old, Spanish book.

Any observations?
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A SHORT-TWITTER WRITING COURSE
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Tutor: @Ngwoke_Ifeanyi

TITLE: PUNCTUATION IN ENGLISH WRITING
DURATION: 15 Minutes Read/Day for 5 days.
COST: Just RT with the hashtag #PunctuationMatters
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THE COMMA.

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You can pause anywhere in speeches; not in writings.
Use a comma,

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1. Period (.)
2 Question Mark (?)
3. Exclamation Mark (!)

Review:
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3. Let's go!

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