Jargon To Jabberwocky: 3 Books To Jazz Your Writing
NPR Wednesday 18th April, 2012
April 18, 2012 I'm an English professor, and I spent the first 15 years of my career trying to write like one. You might be surprised by what that's like. We don't emulate the fiction writers we most admire. We too rarely practice what we preach to our composition students -- namely that good writing is simple and direct. In fact, we're notorious for maze-y sentences and ugly jargon. The point seems less to attract readers with clear prose than t...
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