Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1882 — Advice to Yeung Writers. [ARTICLE]

Advice to Yeung Writers.

Style or composition, though to some it comes naturally, does not come to all. When I was young, an older and moreexperienced writer once said to me: “ Never use two adjectives where one will do ; never use an adjective where a noun will do. Avoid italics, notes of exclamation, foreign words and quotation*. Put full stops instead of colons ; make your sentences as short and clear as you possibly can ; and whenever you think you have written a particularly fine sentence cut it out.”— Mrs. Oliphant.