Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

Menu

Skip to content
  • Jerz
    • Personal
  • Culture
    • Academia
    • Aesthetics
    • Design
    • Education
    • Literacy
    • Politics
    • Sports
  • Ethics
    • Empathy
    • Justice
    • censorship
    • copspeak
    • fact-check
    • fake-news
  • Humanities
    • History
    • Language
    • Philosophy
    • Speech
    • Religion
  • Journalism
    • Current Events
    • Fact Check
    • Fake News
    • JournoMemes
  • Literature
    • Books
    • Drama
    • English
    • Poetry
    • Shakespeare
    • Wilson, August
  • Media
    • Aesthetics
    • Art
    • Books
    • Games
    • PopCult
    • Blender3D
    • Star Trek >
      • TOS
      • TNG
      • DS9
  • Sci/Tech
    • Design
    • Health
    • Nature
    • Psychology
    • Technology
    • Usability
  • Writing
    • Academic
    • Creative
    • Essays
    • Rhetoric
    • Technical / Professional
  • About
    • Courses
  • Search

Avoid static, wordy nominalization. Prefer compelling verbs.

Dennis G. Jerz / 14 Feb 2023

New graphic for a handout I first posted in 2000. “Nominalization.” Avoid static, wordy nominalization. Prefer compelling verbs.

Similar:

Why Even Try if You Have A.I.? Now that machines can think for us, we have to choose wheth...

Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player "Useless"

This 1960s teenager knew the neighborhood that inspired August Wilson’s plays

Had a great time with AmLit students at the August Wilson block party

Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests

Notes on Teaching August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle

Related Posts

14 Feb 2023 in Essays, Humanities, Literacy, Writing. Tags: grammar

Related posts

The Tyranny of Now (Appreciation of Harold Innis)

Is AI making us less intelligent?

Memo to faculty: AI is not your friend (opinion)

Post navigation

← Security is Sleeping in the Back Seat of the Car
AI is better at writing poems than you’d expect. But that’s fine. →

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Enduring

Stop sharing those unsourced memes about "be woke" and "God doesn't need soldiers" -- here's what Pope Leo XIV is actually saying.
MLA Format Papers: Step-by-step Tips for Formatting Research Essays in MLA Style
Instructions: How to Write Procedures for Busy Grouches
Poetry Writing Tips: 10 Helpful Hacks for How to Write a Poem
Show, Don't (Just) Tell
Short Story Tips: 10 Hacks to Improve Your Creative Writing
Fake Graph: The Actual "Dunning-Kruger Effect" Is NOTHING Like I Thought It Was
Oral Presentation Tips: How to Deliver a Speech for School or Work
Short Poems: Little Exquisite Vessels of Thought
Media Bias Chart version 10 -- Left / Center / Right; Fact vs Fabrication; (Ad Fontes Media)

Archives

Categories

Current (8 hr)

Trending (48hr)

Recent Comments

  • Jack on How to Write a Great Blog Comment
  • Dennis G. Jerz on Stop sharing those unsourced memes about “be woke” and “God doesn’t need soldiers” — here’s what Pope Leo XIV is actually saying.
  • Dennis G. Jerz on Stop sharing those unsourced memes about “be woke” and “God doesn’t need soldiers” — here’s what Pope Leo XIV is actually saying.
  • Brenda Norman on Stop sharing those unsourced memes about “be woke” and “God doesn’t need soldiers” — here’s what Pope Leo XIV is actually saying.
  • Caroline on Stop sharing those unsourced memes about “be woke” and “God doesn’t need soldiers” — here’s what Pope Leo XIV is actually saying.
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Expound by Konstantin Kovshenin