Category: Writing Style
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The Specificity of Words: Research Methods
America’s Test Kitchen (https://www.americastestkitchen.com) provides a scientific analysis of cooking various foods (meats, dishes, fish, breads, etc.) as well as cooking products in a series of seasons and episodes. In a recent review of baking stones and steels for making pizza that is just like the professionals, Lisa McManus describes how they tested several products.…
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Transition Words and Phrases: Avoiding Box Car Writing
If you stand next to the tracks when a train is traveling by it’s likely to make you dizzy (particularly if you stand too close). Pretty soon, the monotony of box cars or oil tanks, passing in front of you, one after the other, creates a lull on thinking. You could try to count them,…