William Strunk Jr.
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American professor of English at Cornell University (1869 to 1946); author of The Elements of Style, written in 1918 for his classes and later revised by his…
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Vigorous writing is concise: a sentence should have no unnecessary words, for the same reason a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. (opens korrents.com)
“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.”
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Concise writing does not mean short sentences or leaving out detail; it means making every word tell. (opens korrents.com)
“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.”
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Vigorous writing is concise: a sentence should have no unnecessary words, for the same reason a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. (opens korrents.com)