I was reading an article on Frank Luntz for some unremembered reason and came across an amazing essay by George Orwell. I have been reading it on average about every two weeks and it has really made my writing more direct and concise. If you have a chance you should peruse it.
It came at a good time. I felt like my writing was rapidly coming to the point where it was unnecessarily long and made basically no point. I was falling into the manager speak trap which is not as dangerous as that of doublespeak it still leads to sloppy thinking. Orwell is keeping me on the straight and narrow.
Essays like this revive the desire to become a university professor in linguistics.
1 comment:
No, Justin, not another attempt at school.
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