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I do it too, when I’m being lazy. It simply requires more effort to order one’s thoughts well. The best reference on style I know in this regard is Joseph Wil
by pash 9y ago
I do it too, when I’m being lazy. It simply requires more effort to order one’s thoughts well.
The best reference on style I know in this regard is Joseph Williams’s book Style: Toward Clarity and Grace [0]. The book explains how to analyze your own writing to lessen the mental burden on the reader, mainly by re-writing your sentences so that there is a natural logical flow from subject to predicate to object, with detail added in phrases that don’t get in the way.
0. https://sites.duke.edu/niou/files/2014/07/WilliamsJosephM1990StyleTowardClarityandGrace.pdf https://sites.duke.edu/niou/files/2014/07/WilliamsJosephM199... [PDF]