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Use words that are not abstract; that can be seen, touched, smelled, tasted, felt, weighed, measured, lifted, dropped, moved, etc.Read more at Cost of College: Step 4 of the Kerrigan method of ‘Writing to the Point’ –being CONCRETE
Examples: child, chair, pencil are concrete; freedom, justice, bravery are not
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Latest installment on Kerrigan 'Writing to the Point' project - using CONCRETE words
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Hey Grace & everyone - I'm behind, but I just left a couple of comments on Grace's blogs I've been meaning to post here.
I've discovered all kinds of interesting material on coherent writing: on what it actually IS.
Kerrigan's book anticipates work by "functional linguistics" -- it's amazing.
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