- Don’t use no double negatives.
- Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
- Being bad grammar, the writer will not use dangling participles.
- Try to never split an infinitive.
- When one word is adequate enough, do not repeat yourself by using another unnecessary additional word.
- Do not use a foreign term when there is an adequate quid pro quo.
- If you must use a foreign term, don’t carpe diem and use it incorrectly.
- Avoid run on sentences they are hard to read read your work to see that doesn’t happen.
- As writers, we must not shift your point of view when I write.
- And don’t start a sentence with a conjunction.
- Take the bull by the hand and don’t mix metaphors.
- Avoid trendy terms because they are so totally not cool.
- Never, ever use repetitive and repeating redundancies.
- Avoid commas, that are not necessary.
- Parenthetical words however should be enclosed in commas.
- If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading.
- “Avoid overuse of ‘quotation marks’.”
- If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
- Eschew obfuscation.
- It behooves the writer to avoid archaic expressions.
- Avoid cliches like the plague.
- Proofread carefully to see if left any words out.
The list above came from a Cadet Leadership School loose-leaf booklet from a few years ago. A search on the internet revealed variations of the list. The original author is unknown to me.