good words (right order) is a method of writing instruction designed for busy professionals. While grammar is important, the rules of grammar provide a terrible foundation for writing education. We help you achieve clarity and power in your writing. Sure, it’s a sin to misplace a comma — but it’s a minor sin. Not getting to the point (or having one in the first place) is the real danger.
The work you’re doing here at GW(RO) is fantastic.
I’m an English major on the verge of graduation (Spring 2012), and while one or two teachers I’ve met focus on these topics, most of them do little more than instill various kinds of fear in us. Fear of the word requirement. Fear of being overly simplistic. Fear of not going “deep enough” with our analysis of a given text. I hope that this series will help alleviate those fears, or at least give people like me ways to better handle them. I do understand that scholarly writing is in some ways different from writing professionally, but from where I stand the principles espoused here are universal.