From your About Me page:
“This writer is a veteran diplomat-journalist for more than 45 years and a recipient of excellence awards in journalism. He is a former Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations; he is also an economist, a lawyer and an ASEAN specialist on fiscal policy and regional industrial cooperation. His editorial insights appear in other publications and published in several websites.”
I’m at a loss to reconcile this with what you wrote at the top of this thread.
This does help, from an earlier thread:
“If you studied Literature which include poetry and prose among other things as well as editorial writing in Development Journalism — all offerings of knowledge in the academe — you will find the answers to your questions.
The first thing you will know is that writing style is like a fingerprint that only identifies a particular writer.
The second thing you will know is that Shakespeare is a famous violators of the rules of grammar.
By the way, in the school of literary discipline where I have taught writers to become journalists, you will learn which rules of grammar can be at play. The grammar you have learned in school, may be identifiable from others. For instance, if you can apply the rules of grammar used in creating/writing the greatest literature in the world — the Holy Bible — you will know that the language and syntax are stilted and unwieldy in structure, lacking in clarity ... your own words. Boris Pasternak, one of Russia’s great litterateurs has this identifiable style.
If you are a writer, I bit you have your own fingerprint in writing. The Holy Bible can only be written with such a peculiar style. You do not read the Bible and understand it, like the way you do a news report in The Washington Post. I have my own style too. Different styles in editorial writings, more so in Development Journalism, can win you awards, like I have received in more than 45 years of writings. It depends on how unique it is when it drives home a point from out of the thoughts you wish to convey. If like Shakespeare you have to violate conventional grammar in doing it, don’t hesitate to do it before you lost that thought in lingual niceties. If you can move your readers that way, then you have a great potential.”
Do you get weekend release?