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Effective Writing and Communication
Seeking information on the web, ever felt overloaded with words? Mired in verbosity, wish you could cut to the chase? Many websites could vastly benefit from drastic word reduction. Information is significant. Words are less so.
Skilled writers understand “less is more.” Purportedly, Hemingway wrote a short story with just six words, “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Appreciating brevity, Twitter limits us to 140 characters per message.
Nothing is less compelling than loquacious narrative. Incisive text is often profound. Keep this in mind for your next web page. Your message just might get read.
Oh, and finally, one often cringes at popular usage. Misuse, overuse and abuse of the preposition “like” has made an entire generation sound illiterate. Won’t you help a grammar-starved adolescent dispense with this self-imposed humiliation?
Every time I hear it, it’s like I’m all “Like dude, that’s so not cool! Like when are you gonna learn how to talk, bro?” And he goes . . . and I go . . . and he goes . . . well, you get the drift.
Tags: Communication, Writing