Практикум по чтению и переводу профессиональных текстов по книгоизданию и редактированию. Английский язык

Put your point at the end of a sentence, a paragraph, or chapter for emphasis. This position hooks the reader to pause and notice or hooks him to keep reading.

16. Cut cliches. Once, original metaphors, cliches age and become trite. Instead of «Birds of a Feather Flock Together,» you could say, «Birds of a Feather Need to Fly Away.»

Make your texts sculptured and painted like a fine work of art. Your word choices do make a difference – both in commercial acceptance as well as audience understanding.

Self-editing will help.

Comments:

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3. Answer the following questions:

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2. What recommendations do you follow on your writing?

3. Why should we avoid complex words?

4. Why is it better to cut redundancies?

5. What is recommended about the introduction?

6. What Grammar recommendations are given by the author?

7. What kind of words is it better to use?

4. Translate the sentences into Russian:

1. Your texts also bring people to your Web site to buy your products.

2. While it’s best to get at least two other edits from business associates, you can edit your texts yourself with a little help.

3. Your readers want to get to the heart of your text fast. They want easy-to- read quick tips. Long stories can bring a yawn to your reader.

4. Complex sentences and multiple phrases make the reading tougher. Make it easy for your readers to find the subject and verb of each sentence, so they get the point fast.

5. Cut redundancies. Too much repetition in your texts speaks boring or «talking down» to your readers

6. Don’t use pompous words to try to impress your reader.

7. Use the shortest, simplest, most well-know word.

8. Make your texts sculptured and painted like a fine work of art. Your word choices do make a difference – both in commercial acceptance as well as audience understanding.

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