How to Write a Lot by Paul J. Silvia

Author:Paul J. Silvia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: American Psychological Association

When you’re hunting for opportunities to use ablatives and appositives, such that is easy prey. You rarely hear someone say such that out loud, but you see it in afflicted writing. Let’s envision a world without such that and be the change. If your word processor’s search function turns up a few cases, you have three options: delete the clause preceding such that, replace such that with a colon or dash, or write a tighter sentence.

Before: We created two conditions such that people in one condition were told to be accurate and people in another condition were told to be fast.

After: People in one condition were told to be accurate; people in another condition were told to be fast. (Dropped the preceding clause, used a semicolon to create parallel clauses.)

After: We created two conditions: People in one condition were told to be accurate, and people in another condition were told to be fast. (Replaced such that with a colon.)

Before: People were assigned to groups such that the assignment process was random.

After: People were randomly assigned to groups. (Wrote a tighter sentence.)

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