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Avoid fancy words, Do not use dialect unless your ear is good, be clear,…
Avoid fancy words
Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy and the cute
Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able
If you admire fancy words, if every sky is beauteous, every blonde curvaceous, every intelligent child prodogious, if you are tickled by discombobulate.
The line between the fancy and the plan, between the atrocious and the felicitous, is sometimes alarmingly fine.
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when a colloquialism is better than formal phrasing and is able to sustain the work at a level of good taste.
Not only is the preposition acceptable at the end, sometimes it is more effective in that spot than anywhere else
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be clear
clarity is not the prize in writing, nor is it always the principal mark of a good style
there are occasions when obscurity serves a literary purpose, and there are writers whose mien is more overcast than clear
since writing is communication, clarity can only be a vitue
although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.
when you become hopelessly mired in a sentence, it is best to start fresh
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Muddiness is not merely a disturber of prose, it is also a destroyer of life, of hope
When you say something, make sure you have said it. the chances of your having said it are only fair
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Do not inject opinion
Unless there is a good reason for its being there, do not inject opinion into a piece of writing.
we all have opinions about almost everything, and the temptation to toss them in is great
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Avoid foriegn languages
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sprinkle their work liberally with foriegn expressions, with no regard for the readers comfort
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