Earlier this fall a headline in The Atlantic caught my eye. “The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing,” it said. Promising enough on its own, but there was also a subhead: “A new movement strives ...
This week I'm going full-bore on long phrases that can so easily be shorter. I hope going full-bore doesn't make the topic a complete bore. I've been out of college for decades now, but I still have ...
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Favoring active sentences over passive ones is probably the most repeated advice regarding clarity and concision. An active sentence is one where the subject is the source of the action. Conversely, a ...
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You’re working busily on copy for your company’s website, fully aware of how important it is, but for some reason, the process is going ...
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