How Good Writers Keep Readers Reading

thank you for such informative article.

Thanks for this advice. Very straight to the point reminder to all aspiring writers like me.

Thank you for the advice..Well written!

Excellent article and very good advice. Perhaps, students should be taught the basics of writing before they get to college.

Good piece and good information. It baffles me to this day that people can get into college and still need to be taught the basics.

I will always remember the line. Thanks.

thanks for the advice.

Great advice, thanks. Will have to remember this.

Great advice and good topic. thanks.

mzmax100, the advice I gave my students was as simple as I could make it. I wanted to be part of the solution not part of the problem.

athena, I think if you make something complicated you’re not doing much good. Plus, if a person can’t transfer knowledge, what good does it do to have the knowledge in the first place?

Hi, Mishee: Thank you for stopping by. Writing is a great way to meet other writers.

Very good advice, thanks.

The best advice is always the simplest.

Jack, I had never taught anything to anyone in a formal sense so my students were taught about writing and I was taught about teaching.

Jane, it was probably the best advice I could give them. You can get a book and teach yourself the basics; where are you going to find, every sentence should contain a new piece of information?

Lloyd, writing seems to be one of those skills that if a person doesn’t make a commitment to keep writing well the skill is quickly lost. Good writers are people who live this commitment.

Unofre, I’ve found that writing well is something that has to be worked at constantly. Luckily for me I love to write. And I love to read good writing.

Great advice. Just one more advice you could add. Each sentence has to link the previous sentence to the next one.

I’ll try your suggestion and keep it in mind. Thanks. Great tip.

I truly thought your article was very interesting and informative. I only have one question and that is: if you’re on a roll and the creativity is flowing and you write and write-won’t trying to put new information in every sentence you write-like it could become contriving-does this not interfere with the flow if you have to think about what new information can you put in each sentence? I am not trying to be challenging or to sound dumb, I just don’t know how I could possibly do this, or am I just not understanding what you said. An answer to this would be very helpful to me. Thank you for your article!

It is fun discovering writer who you hang on each word. Thank-you for the advice, Guy. Will keep it new each line.

Cheers, j

You have noticed it? I, also have noticed that most college students, even those who finished college, still don’t know how to compose.

wow! this is very informative… well- written. . .

That is a very interesting piece of information. If you keep your reader looking forward to the “next piece” of information (next sentence) you have caught his attention.
It was never my intention to write, but as it turns out I find joy in reading and writing, and over time I hope to improve.

that was an interesting advice, thanks

sophie, I’m glad you found the article informative.

thanks for the wise words :]

good

I will remember that,

That is very good advise and I had never heard it before. I will have to keep that bit of imformation in mind. So simple and so important.

I believe that in order to increase the word length new piece of info should be added in each sentence otherwise the article or any essay would be boring for the teacher. Thanks for sharing

The topic will go a long way in helping any writer to fill up the page with usefull information.

mystery writer, it’s probably the best advice on writing that I gave to my students and I do try to take my own advice.