my professor told me that this introductory sentence is bad:

wtf are you trying to say?

>>9187855

literally from the next paragraph:

It is true, those who maintain the goodness of all government consists in the goodness of the administration...

is there any noticeable difference in the way he starts his sentences and the way i started mine? is there something i'm not seeing? is this not applicable to modern usage?

from samuel johnson, impeccable prose writer:

It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art to imitate nature...

>>9187855
>It should be noted that...
Address the reader directly:
>One should note that...

>>9187883

oh i see the difference now, thank you.

>>9187855
Storytime professors have a hard time accepting that they aren't important and don't actually have applicable skills or useful knowledge to teach because the strongest communicators have dynamic and malleable speaking styles and improvise well with people who don't share their idealized english.

>>9187855
What a fucking pathetic thread. Get back to listen to The xx

"it" is unnecessary. be direct

bad: "it is often looked down on that girls wear polka dot dresses"

get rid of the floating IT

>>9188169
Found the journalist ;)

That's an insult by the way.