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Clear Writing Tips
On Wednesdays, NCEH/ATSDR’s Writer-Editor Team sends writing tips to thousands of CDC employees. Here’s a list of cleared articles that you can share within CDC or other organizations.
Scientific and Public Health Writing
- Writing for a Scientific Audience
- Seven Deadly Sins of Scientific Writing Part 1
- Seven Deadly Sins Part 2
- Seven Deadly Sins Part 3
- Seven Deadly Sins Part 4
- Seven Deadly Sins Part 5
- Seven Deadly Sins Part 6
- Seven Deadly Sins Part 7
- Seven Deadly Sins Recap
- Another Deadly Sins Recap
- Another Deadly Sins Recap, Part 2
- Another Deadly Sins Recap, Part 3
Word Choice
- Active Verbs
- Addressing the Issue
- Composed/Comprised
- Conversational Writing: Persons
- Conversational Writing: Sufficient
- Does Your Writing Have Impact?
- Do You Need “That” Word?
- Egress Only
- Gobbledygook
- Holiday Card Writing Tips
- Holiday Card Writing Tips, Part 2
- However/But
- How I Look Like
- Lay/Lie/Lain
- Mnemonic Devices
- Pretentious Writing
- Preventative/Preventive
- Redundant Pairs
- Time Where
- Unneeded Words: Actively
- Unneeded Words: Appropriate
- Unneeded Words: Successfully
- Utilize vs. Use