1 Word Can Change Your Entire Text: The Impact of Word Choice in Writing (Writing Course)

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Hi, everybody. Welcome to part three of

our first module. As you know, I'm

working on a writing course, and I'm

building it up step by step. We're still

working on foundations. And today, we're

going to look at the impact of word

choice. Word choice can significantly

affect your writing and how the reader

interacts with or reacts to your

writing. So, before we get started, by

the way, for those of you who are new,

I'm Adam. This is Write to the Top. And

we're going to start with a little bit

of a challenge. I want to show you this

sentence here: The defendants didn't

simply go on a weekend jaunt to the

coast to ride some waves. They took a

deliberate trip to silence a witness.

Now, imagine you're reading this article

about some criminal case and you see

this sentence, and you wonder to

yourself, why did this writer not simply

write this sentence: The defendants

didn't simply go to the coast to ride

some waves. They went to silence a

witness. This sentence, this sentence

exact same thing. This

sentence is using a lot more words. Why?

And notice what I underlined: go on a

weekend jaunt, take a deliberate trip.

Jaunt and trip are synonyms. They both mean

like a little travel. Jaunt means like a

very light, pleasurable, impulsive

little trip. You just decided at the

last minute. A trip is something

you do for a particular purpose. You go

somewhere, you do something, you come

back. And the word deliberate just

reinforces that. It was well thought out