Accessing the Holy Grail of Science Writing in Better Words

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Is your writing weighed down with clichés? Carl Zimmer has an interesting site: , a crowd-sourced style guide. While his guide is intended for science journalism, other writers may find it useful, too. The site lists words and phrases that are misused or misleading, lack meaning, are pompous, or are simply hard to read; with suggested alternatives. Take that, paradigm shift!

 

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