Word Editing Course notes:-

words under words

mechanics and strategy

deliberate practice

syntax- arrangement of words

Animal farm principle - time management

positive nos- being passive on purpose

The smart use of 'however'

Punctuation- body language

Rule of three- Alliteration+ rule of three(short,short,kind of long)= awesome.

Touch of twain- Asyndeton(removal of conjunction)

Gaiman Grab- Polysyndeton(add conjunction)

Alliterations is amazing until its not.

Adverbial conjunctions.

The focus of this chapter has been on phrases because if you learn how to create effective phrases, you
can learn how to create effective sentences; and if you learn how to create effective sentences, you can
learn how to create effective paragraphs; and if you learn how to create effective paragraphs, you can
produce some really great writing.(the rule of three)

I really liked the idea of setting aside "studio time" each week, like Amy Whitaker suggests. Taking time
to learn about something new, in a setting where one can have complete focus on the issue at hand, is
an idea that really resonated with me.

Mary Karr’s The Art of Memoir: “In writing a scene, you must help the reader employ smell and taste
and touch as well as image and noise.”

Interleaving is a process where students mix, or interleave, multiple subjects or topics while they study in
order to improve their learning. Blocked practice, on the other hand, involves studying one topic very
thoroughly before moving to another topic. Recalling is more beneficiary than copying notes.

“Good writing is the best words in their best order.”

“Good writing is getting something right in language.”

“Good writing is making order out of chaos.”

Which- for unnecessary clauses that can be removed but the meaning will remin the same.
That- for restrictive clauses that is essential to give a meaningful, complete sentence.

The two personal pronouns I and me are often used wrongly, usually in sentences in which I is being
used with another noun. Here are some tips to help you get it right:

Use the pronoun I, along with other subjective pronouns such as we, he, she, you, and they, when the
pronoun is the subject of a verb:

He went to bed.

Wewaited for the bus.

Clare and I are going for a coffee.

In the last example, the pronoun I, together with the proper noun Clare, forms the subject of the
sentence, so you need to use I rather than me.

Use the pronoun me, along with other objective pronouns such as us, him, her, you, and them, when the
pronoun is the object of a verb:

Danny thanked them.

The dog followed John and me to the door.

In the last example, the pronoun me, together with the proper noun John, forms the object of the verb
follow, so you need to use me rather than I.

Use the pronoun me, along with other objective pronouns such as us, him, her, you, and them, when the
pronoun is the object of a preposition:

Rose spent the day with Jake and me.

Me, together with Jake, forms the object of the preposition with, so you need to use the pronoun me
rather than the pronoun I.
An easy way of making sure you’ve chosen the right pronoun is to see whether the sentence reads
properly if you remove the additional pronoun:

✓ I am going for a coffee.

✗ Me am going for a coffee.

✓ Rose and I went for a coffee.

✗ Rose and me went for a coffee.

✓ The dog followed me.

✗ The dog followed I.

✓ Rose spent the day with me.

✗ Rose spent the day with I.

Myself is a reflexive pronoun, meaning the speaker or writer would use it self-referentially. In other
words, myself is used when the speaker both performs and receives the verb’s action.

For example,

“I like to describe myself as an introvert, who has extroverted tendencies as well,” explained Mary.

I care for myself by running every morning, avoiding unhealthy foods, and getting plenty of sleep at
night.

“I hurt myself falling down the stairs,” said Joel.

I do, in fact, consider myself a work-hard, play-hard sort of girl. –The New York Times

Myself can also be used intensively, like in these examples,

“I, myself, like a little sugar in my coffee from time to time,” said the wizened old cartographer.

“Why would I pay someone to build a shed for me when I could do it myself?” asked the amateur
carpenter.

Trick to Remember the Difference

Define myself and define me Now, let’s go over a trick to remember myself vs. me.
Given that me and myself are both pronouns, and can both function as the object of a verb, choosing the
correct one is not always easy. They are used in different ways, though.

Me is a personal pronoun.

Myself is either a reflexive pronoun, or an intensive pronoun.

In general, when the speaker is the object of a verb, but not the subject, choose me. When the speaker
is both the subject and the object of a verb, choose myself. Since myself and subject both contain the
letter S, this should be an easy rule to remember.

Shape-

S- write sentences nobody else can write.

H- have you made sense of your experience.

A-are you qualified.

P-punctuation and paragraphing need to be professional.

E-everything must fit into the ending. to end strong. To have a good conclusion.

Coordinating conjunctions- FANBOYS- for, and, nor, but, or, yet and so.

Chiasmus- pattern ABBA

example: YOU DONT STOP RUNNING BECAUSE YOU GET OLD. YOU GET OLD BECAUSE YOU STOP
RUNNING.

Assignment one.

Kant defines enlightenment as a social event. He says, ‘Enlightenment is the project to make the world
more of a home for human beings through the use of reason.’ He looks at both the philosophical and the
social side of enlightenment because he thinks they both should be balanced to lead to a peaceful life in
a society. Kant denies knowledge to make room for faith. He looks both at the phenomenal world and
the noumenal world. I think it's smart to do that because there always is a need for balance and that is
what he calls his ’middle course’. Kant, unlike Rousseau, thinks enlightenment is essential to progress
towards development.He says that the middle course will put the artifacts or the tricks and if we remove
these obstacles people will learn but they will learn ‘gradually’. Rousseau says that these surface ideas
that are called the enlightenment will only disguise progress. The progress is not progress but things that
will lead to corruption and hypocrisy. Rousseau says,”While the government and the laws see to the
safety and the well-being of men assembled, the science, letters and arts, less despotic and perhaps
more powerful, spread garlands of flowers over the iron chains with which they laden, throttle in the the
sentiment of that original freedom for which they seemed born, make them love their slavery, and
fashion them into what is called civilised people.” He critiques the idea of development through
enlightenment. The arts and sciences cover up oppression.They make us love our slavery by making us
forget we’re free.

The huge difference I see between Rousseau and Kant’s idea of enlightenment is that Kant only focuses
on the positive impacts it will lead to but Rousseau doesn’t completely say that enlightenment is a waste
of time. Talking about the government and the laws, Kant says that the foundation of democracy is that a
law is acceptable only if the people impose the law on themselves. He tries to say that if you know that
something is right and you impose it on yourself you’ll reach a state of freedom. He says it's important to
reason your choices and see what's right. Rousseau thinks the clergy and the aristocracy itself is a system
of inequality. If the government itself is a system of natural inequality, how do you trust it with the
people. This natural inequality will lead to hypocrisy. He says that this will create a division between the
people such that the people will lose their individuality and will try to pretend like those who are
considered to be ‘smart’. This he calls, the slippery slope of modernity. He tries to imply that power will
lead people to hypocrisy and selfishness. The state is the product of the rich. Only the rich will benefit
from the state. The rich create schemes to get the poor to defend property. If you can use the state as an
intermediary, the rich will benefit from the political arrangement that guarantees their own superiority
in conditions of inequality. The rich will need the poor to feel the power they have. For Rousseau,
enlightenment becomes materialistic. He also says that the society itself is illegitimate because it is a
violation of our individuality as humans.

To conclude, Kant’s idea is that enlightenment is something we can encourage but it's not something
that will destroy the world. It will lead to development but this development or progress will happen
gradually. For Rousseau, modernity is a huge mistake. He uses the modern tools of enlightenment to see
through selfishness and hypocrisy that the power creates but he also rejects the idea of modernity and
enlightenment.