{"id":1278,"date":"2014-10-21T11:46:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T17:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2014-12-17T11:47:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T17:47:05","slug":"25-insights-on-becoming-a-better-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/25-insights-on-becoming-a-better-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">Learning tips and tricks helps us improve academically. \u00a0Jocelyn Glei shares some insights she gained from some authors. \u00a0She states, \u201cT<\/span>oday, writing well is more important than ever. Far from being the province of a select few as it was in Hemingway\u2019s day, writing is a daily occupation for all of us \u2014 in email, on blogs, and through social media. It is also a primary means for documenting, communicating, and refining our ideas. As essayist, programmer, and investor Paul Graham has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/writing44.html\" target=\"_blank\">written<\/a>, \u2018Writing doesn\u2019t just communicate ideas; it generates them. If you\u2019re bad at writing and don\u2019t like to do it, you\u2019ll miss out on most of the ideas writing would have generated.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So what can we do to improve our writing short of hanging ourselves? Below, find 25 snippets of insight from some exceptional authors. While they are all focused on the craft of writing, most of these tips pertain to pushing forward creative projects of any kind.\u201d \u00a0To read these tips, <a href=\"http:\/\/99u.com\/articles\/7082\/25-insights-on-becoming-a-better-writer\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning tips and tricks helps us improve academically. \u00a0Jocelyn Glei shares some insights she gained from some authors. \u00a0She states, \u201cToday, writing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5DI6r-kC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}