Laura T. Smith: Teaching

In all of your writing, strive to meet these Mechanical Proficiencies:

--No run-ons, comma splices, or inappropriate fragments;
--No offensive, inappropriate, or colloquial language;
--A lean, jargon-free style;
--No subject/verb agreement errors;
--No pronoun agreement errors;
--No ambiguous pronouns;
--No misused, dangling, or misplaced modifiers;
--Commas used correctly;
--No spelling errors;
--Text carefully edited and proofread.

In addition, start working to improve your writing stylistically; some sophisticated stylistic attributes such as these should be evident in your writing:

--A sensitivity to the connotations of words;
--An awareness of levels of style;
--A satisfying variety of sentence structures and lengths;
--A skillful management of parallel elements: phrases, clauses, and sentences;
--An employment of appropriate rhetorical schemes and tropes.