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writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.
William Strunk JR. and E.B. White • The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
Writing is selection.
John McPhee • Draft No. 4
James Q. Wilson and George Kelling
Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
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Ben Fountain • Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
E. B. White makes the case cogently in The Elements of Style, a book every writer should read once a year, when he suggests trying to rearrange any phrase that has survived for a century
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Focus on the first paragraph. If you are going to change one sentence, change this. Here’s a trick: read the sentence, open another document, and rewrite the sentence, or the sense of the sentence, from memory.
Joe Smith • The Optimized Marketer: Writing with AI: Future-proof Your Talent and Position Your Business for a World Transformed by AI (The Optimized Self)
emphasis on the subject content and the title’s overall suitability for undergraduate, rather than research, use.