Sentence examples for competent writing from inspiring English sources

Competent writing, X insists, requires a solid grounding in grammar and a long history of reading.

BioWare had long been the HBO of game studios, turning out well-made titles that were more cognitively challenging than the standard shoot-'em-up fare, and Mass Effect was its signature franchise: a thrilling action game that also featured competent writing, moral complexity, and a legitimate sense that the player's choices shaped the narrative.

I am amazed, aghast, horrified that anyone would think that competent writing is deadly.

The show has a high budget, focuses on the action of war and uses a competent writing style that doesn't try anything weird.

His devastating judgment on the book was that it had not made him "more judicious in his studies of history and antiquity, nor more skilled in disputation, nor more competent at writing poetry, nor indeed more competent at anything at all…" (Ramus, Scholae dialecticae, in Scholae in liberales artes, col. 153).

"An analyst sitting in Bombay will find it very difficult to do a competent job writing a report that values Wal-Mart's stock if he has never even been to Wal-Mart and doesn't have a close relationship with Wal-Mart's management," he said.

First-year doctors are neither confident nor competent in writing a prescription corroborating the lack of undergraduate and postgraduate education in prescribing [ 9- 12].

"Before the 1980s the City had been viewed as stuffy, boring and unimaginative but essentially honest and competent," he writes.

"I have taken steps the previous Dread Pirate Roberts wouldn't have even thought of so you may rest assured, you are in the hands of a technically competent expert," wrote the Dread Pirate Roberts on the site's rebooted forums.

Neumont, unlike traditional schools, allowed him to test out of introductory courses in his computer science major; during high school he'd earned three Microsoft certifications (indicating he was competent to write software).

You can, alas, be somewhat successful in introductory classes by formula hunting and memorizing rote algorithms, but then you can be somewhat successful in introductory English classes by writing competent but formulaic essays.