An old English professor that shaped much of the English Department at Cornell always emphasised three words… Simplify, Simplify, Simplify!
“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. 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 every word tell.”
Such a profound observation
Such a profound observation contained in such few lines . . . EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
J-Called
Simplify, Simplify, Simplify!
An old English professor that shaped much of the English Department at Cornell always emphasised three words… Simplify, Simplify, Simplify!
“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. 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 every word tell.”
That would have been good
That would have been good advice to John Milton. Alas, brevity was not his strength.
J-Called