| What you ought NEVER to do in your essays for
this class: |
- Use "you," "the reader," or "one"
because you are assuming that any possible reading will have the same opinion that you are
presenting
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- Use "I" or "me" unless you are using personal
experience to back up your argument(s)
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- Use "I believe" or "I think" because those
phrases allow you to hedge your arguments instead of just saying "this is so"
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- Use contractions because they are informal language structures
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- Use questions because you, as the writer, should be answering
questions not asking them
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- Use "there is/are" or "it is/are" because in
using this sentence structure you are avoiding clearly signaling to your reader who/ what
is the subject of your sentence
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