[PRL] Bad Writing and Bad Thinking

[Mitchell Wand]

Link:
http://chronicle.com/article/Bad-WritingBad-Thinking/65031/?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en(via
shareaholic.com)

Orwell leaves us with a list of simple rules:

   - Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are
   used to seeing in print.
   - Never use a long word where a short one will do.
   - If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
   - Never use the passive where you can use the active.
   - Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you
   can think of an everyday English equivalent.
   - Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
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