From the course: Writing with Flair: How to Become an Exceptional Writer

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Missing links

Missing links

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Missing links

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- We've just seen how not being very clear about what you wanna say creates fuzziness in your writing. I want you to see now the clarity also suffers when causal links in a sentence don't line up properly. Now, this is a really subtle point but I want to give it to you anyway because it helps to make your writing really exceptional. Let me show you what I mean by causal elements in a sentence. Here's a sentence about Australia, a country that exports a lot of raw materials like coal, copper and iron ore. I want you to really try hard to understand what it means completely, this sentence. And don't worry if you don't have any knowledge of the subject because that doesn't matter here. We're just looking at the sentence as a piece of writing and it's really helpful to do that with stuff that you aren't that familiar with. Now, here's the sentence. Plunging coal exports forced a sharp drop in government revenue this year, economists say. Did you get it? Or do you experience, as I do, a…

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