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
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.
ReplyDeleteI'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.