Style

I never thought about rewording the sentence to make it more memorable.  It's amazing how different a sentence can sound when words are moved around.

Tip #1 "Place yourself in the background" makes sense to me and I have never really thought of it.  Instead of trying too hard to show your feelings in the writings and hurt your writing with it, just focus on writing good and your style will emerge at some point.

I like tip #2 a lot too, which is "write in a way that comes naturally".  I never thought about this before, but it does make lots of sense.  Some students in this class write so much better and use vocabulary that I never thought of using.  If I would use these words in writing it probably wouldn't sound right, unless I would use them when I speak also.  English is my second language, and even so I have been here for quite a while, there are still lots of words I have never heard before.  I should take the words I like in my verbal vocabulary first, and then they will come natural when I'm writing.

I like all of these really and they all make sense.  The only one really going against my intuition is tip #11, which is "do not explain too much".  I always thought it makes more sense to explain more about the mood of the person you are writing about.  So this one really goes against my intuition and is something I need to work on.
Kristina Hanson