Students are forever struggling to improve their writing skills. The goal, however, alludes, bobbing and weaving like a prize-fighter. In the following podcast, I detail steps you can undertake to achieve greater efficiency, even elegance, in your writing. Key to this is what I term 'segmenting'. By segmenting your writing, you can move through each component – content, structure, and style – more efficiently, dedicating the requisite energy to a single task rather than melding and thus confusing all three. 

The greatest advantage to this approach is that it facilitates your ability to make intelligent choices throughout the writing process. By targeting each component separately, you come to appreciate how they vibe (and when they clash), developing the proficiency needed to leverage the components toward the production of elegant compositions. Follow these steps and you will quickly extricate yourself from the sludge of inefficient writing.