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Quoteworthy: William Strunk – Vigorous Writing is Concise

  • Writer: Jonathan Babcock
    Jonathan Babcock
  • May 20, 2010
  • 1 min read

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.

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