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by partyboat1586 2191 days ago
"I enjoy that John D. Cook doesn't pad his posts."
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Please edit all of my writing. ;-)
Check out The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. He talks about how to write and stresses the importance of being concise.
I suspect the point was that brevity is harder than it looks.
Be concise. Be forcible. Have a plan to kill every sentence you meet.

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This is my preferred summary of Strunk and White.

He's a concise blogger.
He blogs concisely.
cncse blg