Why Rangers manager Ron Washington’s Job is in danger

This is a well written article that gets to the point quickly, has a good mix of sentence types, and uses short sentences and paragraphs.

Good writing uses short sentences:

The writer does a good job of keeping his sentences concise. And if one was a little longer, there were never two long ones back to back. “It’s all about getting the most out of your players. And at the end of last season, the Rangers tightened up and fell apart. This year’s collapse just started two weeks earlier.”

Comes to the point quickly:

The article gets to the point in the first two sentences. The manager’s job is in danger. “If this is the end for manager Ron Washington, it’s not going to be a case of the media running him out of town. But his own team just might run him out.”

Mix of sentence types:

The article uses different sentence types and mixes them well, keeping the article from getting stale or monotonous. “That’s correct. And no manager since the days of player-managers ever has been totally responsible for September meltdowns, but that hasn’t kept hundreds of them from getting fired.”

Good writing has short paragraphs:

This article has no paragraph longer than four lines (or three sentences).  The paragraphs are short and sweet and get to the point.

“Washington calls it aggression. It’s how he was schooled in the Kansas City Royals’ system 40 years ago. Today it’s a mode that is considered somewhere between high-risk and obsolete.”

This was one of the longest paragraphs in the article.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/texas-rangers/headlines/20130917-cowlishaw-why-rangers-manager-ron-washington-s-job-is-in-danger.ece