Tips for Clearer and Better Proses
The author shares four tips on how to write clearer and better proses
Here are four ways to write clearer and better proses:
1. Write in a way that’s come naturally
Use words and phrases that come readily to hand. If you struggle too long with one sentence, which is threatening to sink despite your best efforts at repairing the leaks, then it is the best to allow the boat sink. Try breaking up the earlier sentence into two shorter lines.
2. Write with nouns and verbs
Not with adjective and adverbs. This is not an attempt to insult adjectives and adverbs they’re important. In general, however, it is nouns and verbs that give good writing its muscle and vigor. A quick example:
Poor Alfred was dealt a horrific death in the hands of a bunch of unruly and merciless street gangsters who attacked him violently, brutally and viciously.
(five adjectives, three adverbs, two nouns, one passive verbs, one active verb, 26 words)
3. Do not overstate or overwrite
Ornate prose is hard to swallow and usually makes you want to puke. Try not to overstate! Or else your reader will lose confidence in your sense of judgments and taste! Bali is a great place to visit! All writers, according to my writing professor in graduate school, should be limited to only three exclamation marks in their entire life. I have used up my quota.
4. Omit unnecessary words
Clutter, like all the crap in a messy bedroom, is distressing. Vigorous writing is concise. For example, “in spite of the fact that” can be appended to “although.” Always look for opportunities to write compressed, fat-free sentences.
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