"The author projects a voice of confident authority."
That was my favorite line from my reader's reports, especially since it was from the reader who had more substantive suggestions / things sh/e found that needed to be addressed. Reading that phrase I realized that I do try to sound like that.
I bet part of that air of "confident authority" is a result of not using "I would like to suggest that ..." – and more generally just writing clearly and directly, without signposting and hedging.
ReplyDeleteYes. That and knowing my shit.
ReplyDeleteOne of the reasons I find such signposting and hedging so irritating is that it often makes it seem like people don't know their shit.
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