Style
Huge subject for a few minutes.
Am I referring to your few minutes or mine? Mine in the first instance. But if I do not hold dear your time and attention---bad style!
Note my first paragraph above is a sentence without a main verb. I could have started thus:
It is a huge subject for a few minutes.
or even
Writing style is a huge subject for a few minutes.
Yawn-worthy!
Suppressing the redundant is the essence of style. Obviously I mean good style, but "good" was redundant too.
We have covered these rules:
Be brief
Prune
Illustrate
Exemplify
See reader's viewpoint
There's more but I have another rule: don't be exhaustive.
1 comments:
You're right. Sometimes being perfect in our sentences can be boring. It's nice to break the rules every now and then just for some variety!
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