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INTRODUCTION TO THE ADVICE CODE WITHOUT READING THIS FIRST, THE CODE WILL BE OF LESS USE TO YOU THAT IT COULD. WHY WOULD YOU WANT THE CODE TO BE OF LESS USE TO YOU THAN IT COULD ? YOU WOULDN’T. NOT UNLESS YOU’RE UNSURE ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU CARE FOR YOUR WORK, OR ARE SELF-DESCTRUCTIVE. WHICH WILL BE UNHLEPFUL FOR YOU. YES, I DO KNOW YOU’RE BUSY AND YOU SKIP THINGS… DON’T SKIP THIS. This code is designed to help you become a better writer. Although you have now embarked upon a course of study which will give you access to other writers’ help and insights, you are the one person who can truly help you improve. If you think you have nothing to learn – and some people do – then you are probably wasting your time being here and it’s highly unlikely that your work will prosper. If you cultivate an attitude which seeks always to find what can be made better, then you will always grow in your craft and you will have the best possible chance of doing well in a very hostile and competitive field. The code is a diagnostic tool to help you examine your writing – word for word – and to see where it is not yet fully serving its purpose in a given context. Examining your writing in detail is the key to improving it. There is only one magical solution to bad writing – making it better. You can do that. The more often you do that, the more effective your skillset will become. Making your work better is hard unless you understand what you’re trying to write and what has gone wrong. It’s up to you to decide what you are writing. These pages are mainly about what may have gone wrong. But they are nothing to get sad about. We are dealing here with work in progress - wrong and right are nothing to concern us emotionally. Everything can be altered. We remove the wrong, we improve the right, we build prose which is functional, beautiful and communicative and then we give it to others. During your time here, you will receive all kinds of stimuli and challenges. Sometimes these wil