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Concise writing does not mean short sentences or leaving out detail; it means making every word tell.

Drawn from what William Strunk Jr. said

What these subjects mean

simplicity Less, but better: reduction as the way to make something good, and the argument about when it goes too far.

writing Prose as thinking: writing well, writing by hand while a model offers to do it, and who will still be able to.

Why is it harder to simplify than to add?under our view: Less is not the goal: the aim is clarity, and cutting too far loses what mattered

What William Strunk Jr. actually said

  1. William Strunk Jr. American professor of English at Cornell University (1869 to 1946)
    This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that he make every word tell.

    ↗The Elements of Style (1918)gutenberg.org

    c. 1918–1920

    All 2 korrents from this piecethis one is 2nd

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