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Busy writing essays for summer research, scholarships, job applications, etc? Hot tip: beware of "zombie nouns" that will make your writing dull and confusing for readers. Learn how to avoid turning your writing into the walking dead from TED.

http://ed.ted.com/on/eJKYN8dx

Beware zombie nouns! When you make a noun out of other parts of speech, you create a "nominalization". This TED-Ed video is based on Helen Sword's NYT op-ed of July 23, 2012, where she calls these nominalizations "zombie nouns" (much more memorable!). Her reasoning is that zombie nouns "cannibalize active verbs and suck…

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