WORDS

1.Sap

A style that consists of passive constructions will sap the reader’s energy.

If you describe something saps your energy,you mean you are weakened by it.

Eg.I was afraid the sickness had sapped my strength.

例子：The cold has sapped my strength so I am afraid I can not finish today’s reading task.

2.toss-up

Or is he perhaps—the opinion is open to argument—the best pitcher?Admittedly I don’t know. It’s virtually a toss-up.

If you describe something is a toss-up,you mean you don’t know exactly what the answer is.The either side is even.

Eg.It's a toss-up whether oil prices will go up or down over the days ahead.

例子：It’s a toss-up whether I go aboard or stay at home.

3.sprinkle

Like adverbs, they are sprinkled into sentences by writers who don’t stop to think that the concept is already in the noun.

If you describe something sprinkle with something,you mean it has a few of them throughout it and they are far apart from each other. 星星点点地分布

Eg.Unfortunately, the text is sprinkled with errors.

Men in green army uniforms are sprinkled throughout the huge auditorium.

4.dissimilar

it’s probably because you’re trying to make the sentence do more than it can reasonably do—perhaps express two dissimilar thoughts.

If you describe two things are dissimilar,you mean they are very different from each other.

Eg.His methods were not dissimilar to those used by Freud...

It would be difficult to find two men who were more dissimilar...

例子：The twins are dissimilar.

5.go berserk

But don’t go berserk. A succession of tiny paragraphs is as annoying as a paragraph that’s too long.

Erupt in furious rage, become crazily violent. For example, When they announced the gymnast's score, her coach went berserk.

Reflection

Verb:Use active verbs rather than the passive verb.

Adverbs:Get rid of the redundant adverbs.

Adjectives:Use it precisely.

Little Qualifies:Get rid of the small words that qualify how you feel and how you think.

                      Write with confidence.

Punctuation:1.the period：It's unwise to express two or three dissimilar ideas in one sentence,so divide it into parts.

                2.the exclamation point:Use it when necessary.

                3.the semicolon:Use it when you want to add the related thought to the first half of a sentence.

                4.the dash:(1).to amplify a thought that mentioned in the first part in the second part.（后面说明）

                                (2).Set apart a parenthetical thought within a longer sentence.(中间插入)

                5.the colon:It can bring your sentence to a brief halt before you plunge into.

Mood Changes:To alert the reader as soon as possible when you want to change your mood.By using the word like”however”,”but”

Contractions:

That and Which:Always use “that”unless it makes your meaning ambiguous.

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Concept Nouns：Better to use active verb to describe a concept.

Creeping Nounism:Don’t use two or three nouns together.

Overstate:Don’t overstate,just let the humor sneak up.

Credibility:Always be ture.

Dictation:Dictation is a false economy.Check it after the dictation.

Contest:Writing is not a contest and just do yourself.

Paragraphs:keep your paragraphs in a media length.