Kaplan Analytical Writing Why use several words when one will do? Many people make the mistake of writing phrases such as "at the present time" or "at this point in time" instead of the simpler "now", or "take into consideration" instead of simply "consider", in an attempt to make their prose seem more scholarly or more formal. It doesn't work. Instead, their prose ends up seeming inflated and pretentious. Don't waste your words or time. WORDY: I am of the opinion that the aforementioned managers should be advised that they will be evaluated with regard to the utilization of responsive organizational software for the purpose of devising a responsive network of customers CONCISE: We should tell the managers that we will evaluate their use of flexible computerized databases to develop a customer network. ----------------- Preposterous!!
. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. 2. Never use a long word where a short one will do. 3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. 4. Never use the passive where you can use the active. 5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. 6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous. These rules sound elementary, and so they are, but they demand a deep change of attitude in anyone who has grown used to writing in the style now fashionable. Orwell.
And yet you typically post insensible gibberish, laden with flawed grammar, inscrutable references and flat out bad syntax. To say nothing of the way you abuse commas, ellipsis, etc. What gives? CTE?
Not sure but when I said it in my mind it came out in a stuffy British accent with nasal intonations.
