{"id":1871,"date":"2019-03-26T09:47:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T13:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:38:08","slug":"lims-10-donts-in-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/2019\/lims-10-donts-in-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lim&#8217;s &#8220;10 DON&#8217;Ts in Writing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/people\/merlyna\/\">Merlyna Lim<\/a> has developed a list of 10 things to be avoided in good writing. Now, we are sharing it with you for your own use in writing or teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-quote cu-component-spacing\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Don&#8217;t be Cardi B of writing!&#8221;, &#8220;This thesis is too Kardashian!&#8221;, &#8220;Spidey moment!&#8221; Those are among feedback I give students to improve their writing. Guess what? They work. Thanks to this list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"iframe_container\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/prezi.com\/embed\/oxedkhhdhree\/?bgcolor=ffffff&amp;lock_to_path=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;autohide_ctrls=0&amp;landing_data=bHVZZmNaNDBIWnNjdEVENDRhZDFNZGNIUE43MHdLNWpsdFJLb2ZHanI5eis5bExLMjBzWVcya1loY2dIVVF4am1BPT0&amp;landing_sign=gl-Bf5CeoeMkRTG6hYgA5ts9630UmIyOnuRv6aVw0zE\" width=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merlyna Lim has developed a list of 10 things to be avoided in good writing. Now, we are sharing it with you for your own use in writing or teaching. She said: Don&#8217;t be Cardi B of writing!&#8221;, &#8220;This thesis is too Kardashian!&#8221;, &#8220;Spidey moment!&#8221; Those are among feedback I give students to improve their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[298,299],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","tag-writing","tag-writingtips"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1879,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions\/1879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}