DO NOT:

• conclude the manuscript with "The End"
• use you in place of 1st or 3rd person
• use get in place of become, receive, obtain
• use a lot in place ofoften, many, several,
  frequently
• use should of in place of should have
• use like in place of just as, as, as if, as though
• use thing in place of the specific concept, or
  object
  

AVOID:

• clichés
• colloquialisms (slang)
• passive verbs
• wordiness
• dangling or misplaced modifiers
• redundancy
• generalities and vagueness
• shift in construction (number, tense, person, voice) in the middle of a sentence

BE CAREFUL WITH:

affect / effect among / between imply / infer its / it's lie / lay quotation / quote

real / really that / which then / than there / their / they're to / too / two your / you're

Make sure that final manuscripts are neat, neat, neat.