Monday, March 21, 2016

Blog Mirror: Law Prowse: LawProse Lesson #25: Whatever doesn't help positively hurths


LawProse Lesson #245: Whatever doesn’t help positively hurts.
 
Often you’ll find yourself trying to decide whether to include something in expository prose—an extra argument, another illustration, a brief aside, an interesting tangent, etc. The sage wisdom of ancient rhetoricians is to omit everything that doesn’t have some demonstrable benefit. . .


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