Comments on: Two Techniques That Help You Embrace Brevity

By: Josh Hart

Josh Hart — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:34:46 +0000

Good article. I found the techniques helpful especially for online articles and such.

By: Juliette

Juliette — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:26:41 +0000

Thank you! And I would stress that any writer of anything memorize Strunk & White’s “Elements of Style.” It won’t take long to read or memorize because it’s short. (But get something before the 1997 edition. Ironically, the editors of that one didn’t learn the lessons.)

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:44:32 +0000

I like your message but think the example used is ineffective. The ‘tighter’ Macbeth description left me confused and overwhelmed while the original was more clear and conveyed the meaning.

Brevity seems terse, abrupt and angry while speaking but has the opposite effect in writing.

PS I edited 7 words out of this comment. How’s that for brevity?

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By: Karl Hardisty

Karl Hardisty — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:40:56 +0000

Excellent article. We recently went through our site and removed a lot of ‘fluff’, but anything that can help us further this goal has to be good.

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