Process Conclusions Conciseness Verbs Data Conventions	Read aloud
	Your mouth and your ears know more about language than your eyes ever will; so engage them. If you can take the writing somewhere where reading aloud will not be an embarrassment, do so. As you read aloud-- you may notice places where you have omitted words or used awkward forms; change them. you may also notice places where the writing has sentences that take longer than a full breath; shorten them. you may notice places where you feel embarrassed about how unsophisticated or choppy the writing is; look for ways to subordinate lesser ideas. Do not worry if you hate the writing and do not become ecstatic if you love the writing; the value of your writing is not in your emotional response to it and not in your understanding of it, but in the reader's. Every writer detests the work at some step in the process and overvalues it at some other step.
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