Last week, we discussed the importance of adjectives and the need to handle them cautiously. I pointed out that although they enhance clarity, they are not needed in some situations, especially when ...

It is a lovely warm August day outside, and I am wearing a green loose top. Does the second part of that sentence sound strange to you? Perhaps you think I should have written “loose green top.” ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Adjectives have always been out there, mobs of them pressing on the outside walls, their faces against the ...

So how do we produce readable and clean scientific writing? One of the good elements of style is to avoid adverbs and adjectives (Zinsser 2006). Adjectives and adverbs sprinkle paper with unnecessary ...