Writing Tip of the Month
June 27th, 2010 by anneschroeder
Tip for June 2010
WEASEL WORDS
Angie Hunt calls these weasel words because they hide in the writing and make it weaker. Most of the time they are not necessary. She gave us a list and then she also said to search our own writing for words we overuse, for they become weasels too.
Here is the list:
just
just then
began to
to
suddenly
some
rather
thought
wonder
that
started to
decided
it was
it
were
all at once
immediately
very
to be
-ing words
-ly words
This is a great tip. Thank you.