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Assignment:

1. What are the building blocks of clarity and flow?

2. Even though instructors often have word count requirements, why is it best for writers to avoid wordiness?

3. What are the seven tips for better clarity in writing?

The following are seven sentences that lack clarity and flow. Revise them using the tips you listed to guide you. You may add words, remove words, or rearrange words. Just don't change the underlyingmeaning of the sentences. Sentences are drawn from Williams and Bizup's Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace 11th edition.

1. There is opposition among many voters to nuclear power plants based on a belief in their threat to human health.

2. The outsourcing of high-tech work to Asia by corporations means the loss of jobs for many American workers.

3. The store's price increase led to frustration among its customers.

4. There is a need for an analysis of library use to provide a reliable base for the projection of needed resources.

5. Colleges now have an understanding that yearly tuition increases are impossible because of strong parental resistance to the soaring cost of higher education.

6. Attempts were made on the part of the president's aides to assert his immunity from a congressional subpoena.

7. A student's lack of socialization into a field may lead to writing problems because of his insufficient understanding about arguments by professionals in that field.