The secret of good style

A lot of thick textbooks are devoted to recommending steps for successful stylistics/ The most frequently mentioned are the following:

1. Choose a suitable design and hold to it.

2. Use the active voice. The active voice is usually more direct and vigorous than the passive:

3. Put statements in positive form. Use definite, specific, concrete language. Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vigiie, the concrete to the abstract.

4. Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise.

5. Avoid a succession of loose sentences. -

6. Keep related words together.

7. In summaries, keep to one tense.

8. Place yourself in the background. ‘

9. Work from a suitable design.

10. Write with nouns and verbs.

11. Revise and rewrite.

12. Do not overwrite.

13. Do not overstate.

14. Avoid the use of qualifiers. 9. Do not affect a breezy manner.

15. Use orthodox spelling.

16. Do not explain too much. 12. Do not construct awkward adverbs.

17. Make sure the reader knows who is speaking.

18. Avoid fancy words.

19. Do not inject opinion.

20. Use figures of speech sparingly.

21. Do not take shortcuts at the cost of clarity.

22. Avoid foreign languages.

23. Prefer the standard to the offbeat.

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