Faulkner State Community College

English teachers, as well as teachers within other disciplines, often boil down abstract principles to easily explainable bullet points. Students often pick up and retain these points but fail to grasp the broader contexts that make them relevant. It is therefore sometimes helpful to revisit some of the more common of these ''rules of thumb'' to help students apply them toward more definite objectives such as, in the case of freshman composition, producing more concise and informative writing.