George Orwell’s 5 Rules for Effective Writing

I read this essay over 10 years ago. It changed the way I viewed the writing process. Lazy (‘foolish’ according to Orwell) thinking if allowed to become lazy writing encourages even lazier thinking.

I think it was C.S. Lewis who said (echoing Einstein), and I paraphrase: If you can’t explain it to a 12 year old then you have not understood the concept. And how better to know you understand, than to put fingers to keyboard!

I am currently studying a basic level writing course at university.

This blog has infact summed up what a month of lectures and tutorials has been trying and failing to do. So simple!

Thankyou!

Yes, ironically enough, simplicity is one of the hardest things to teach.

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Very useful and true list! Thanks very much.
It’s on my blog now, with a link back here!

http://www.theinternetjournalist.com/?p=86
or
http://www.theinternetjournalist.com/

writer, I’m glad you found the post useful. Thanks for sharing with your readers!

Good practical tips! I’ve partially reproduced it. Hope you don’t mind!

Most of today’s bloggers try hard trying to sound intelligent, but end up like rumsfeld!

http://www.charchaa.com/george_orwell_s_5_rules_for_effective_writing

anony, of course I don’t mind at all, they’re not originally mine anyways. They came from Orwell. I’m just happy you want to share the message with your readers.

Hehehe.. how ironic:

“4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.

This one is frequently broken…”

Haha, thanks for catching that Pepe. I guess the difference between passive and active isn’t quite as obvious as I thought.

following rules is a complete waste of time if you’ve got nothing to say. and if you’re got something to say, then rules are irrelevant. most writers, musicians, artists, etc are just piglets eager to suckle the teats of some corporate pig as they dream of dollars, with dreck-mongers like stephen king, spielberg, lucas, eric crapton, madonna, etc, etc as their role models. not one single original thought provoking expression between the lot of them. let me put it this way: stupid people suck, it doesn’t matter what rules they follow cos whatever they say is still going to be stupid.

Strunk & White is more accepting of passive voice. It recommends the passive voice when the object of a sentence is, more broadly speaking, the subject. For instance if you are writing an essay about acorns, you could rightly say, “Acorns are buried by industrious squirrels.”

Thanks for the explanation, Frank. That is a great of example of when the passive voice is a better fit.

I really need to read over my old copy of Strunk and White.

I tell this to Zombos everyday, but he never listens. Excellent advice, though. Thanks.

Five rules? As in 6=5? Just joking. Thanks very much for posting these, Politics and the English Language is one of the very best. And now the clock strikes thirteen…

Nice post. A lot of would-be pro bloggers don’t realize how crucial great writing skills are to their lasting success. These tips are keepers!

asdf is missing the point. Writing well is not always about writing original, compelling prose. It is just as much the need to communicate effectively. If you write a memo or an email or a blog entry, you want to follow this advice. This isn’t the kind of writing that wins raves, yet is written every day.

I agree, Charlzz. If everything written had to be completely original and fabulously expressed I don’t think anything would ever get published.

Nicely done! going straight into my Del.icio.us!

Thanks, Alex.

A loghorreic ambiguation has sans doute suffocated our attempts at verbal manifestation like a wet rag; any smouldering embers of creativity have been snuffed like a candle leaving but a barren dessert to the lexically enabled, consequently ablating – ca va sans dire – the sematic rendition of expression in a cacoëthes loquendi.

So what’s with the 6th rule in a piece about 5 rules? I’m trying to see it as some witty, ironic, self-reference. But it’s not working.

The “trunk and White” book referred to above is “The Elements of Style”‘ by Wm. Strunk and E. B. White. It covers briefly but perfectly the issues involved in interesting and concise writing. It really is a must-have reference.

My dear,
These rules are universal like the fact that all of us should speak truth. Still, they are repeated time and again just because we tend to ignore it.
This is for the simple reason that we ourselves do not understand what we are perceiving through our senses.
And everytime we need some big name to tell us small things! This is the irony of the situation. You used Orwell to tell the simple truth with big name.
Thanks for this interesting reading. I wish people really follow it rather than using it as a quote to show their intelligence.

Williams’ Style: Towards Clarity and Grace is also a good read for writing. It focuses more on the paragraph level, whereas Strunk and White focuses more on phrases and sentences.

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Charlzz: “Writing well is not always about writing original, compelling prose. It is just as much the need to communicate effectively.”

Can you give a single example of compelling prose that is not effective communication, or vice versa?

isn’t this the guy who wrote an excellent read on the dangers of slimming down language as a danger of the government slowly taking over the details of citizens’ lives?

i love the essay.. but damn!! i believe in extending the words in order to best clarify a point. after reading orwell’s insight.. i think he actually agrees!!

maybe those who came before us were a bit longer in their wording. we all have our ways..

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I checked out some parts of in the Economist’s Style Guide, quite useful. But I can not help getting myself doing that when it comes to real writing.

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He was a strange man…

“Less is always better.”

Fewer is better still.

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I could have used this yesterday *smiles*

I had to write a piece – and I’m not a writer at all! – on what I do for a few thousand people – GAH!

I wish I’d had this yesterday… *sighs*

That’s unfortunate, Judith. I’m sure there will be a next time though.

I do not wish to sound pretentious, but I really wish to inform anybody who may be understandably unsure as to the meaning of the word “fascism”. If one simply Google’s it they will understandably confused, and could be forgiven for concluding this word has no definitive meaning.

Various different dictionaries claim many different meanings, such as “tyrannical government” or “oppressive regime”. This word is frequently introduced by the media in order to deflect investigative questions, and claim the moral high ground, in effect manipulating the emotions of the public.

The correct and original meaning of “fascism” is a direct coalition between a state and industry. Big industries role is increasingly overlooked. One may only take the EU for an example of a modern fascist organisation; it did after all start out as European Economic Community.

I believe this is both good and bad, but I fear the increasing trend in western culture to frown upon such terminology, whilst at the same time attempting to perfect it. I agree with the points in this post. We must be able to communicate clearly in order to avoid self-destruction.

@asdf

Young man, you are quite mistaken. The object of the exercise is to ‘write well’, not ‘write original material’. By that definition, the much reviled Stephen King [et al] has performed quite admirably. Or else you have done better and the proceeds of your prowess have equally allowed you to live quite prosperously.

Furthermore, it is quite useless to be envious and disdainful of the productions of others. If you find them so, ignore them. If you want to be proven right: do better. If you cannot: read better material. What use is a life spent lamenting the poor quality of others’ work when your own cannot match them?

Write well and enjoy the process!

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Hey, “no hands down” the best blog I’ve read this a.m. I found it via DIGG.

Thanks, Brad. I’ve been getting a lot of visitors from Digg this morning, it’s my first time on the front page.

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John, Digg is awesome. I was just actually thinking “You know I bet that guy just put a Digg button on his blog and one person hit it and bam.”

And as I read along more of your blogs, you may have just found another faithful subscriber. Good stuff keep it coming!

@George

Here is worthwhile advice to you:

Don’t use the word ‘quite’ in every other sentence, especially when you are criticizing someone. It looks snobbish and stupid.

When you communicate a point, be direct.

Throw out all the quites, almosts, evens, pretty muches and their friends too. Write with authority and people will believe you.

See rule #3.

Nice and useful tips. Thanks

4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.

> The active is better because it’s shorter and more forceful.

Another problem is that the passive can be vague. Eg. You can write “The man was bitten” but it begs the question, “by whom?”

> This one is frequently broken

…by whom?

“Many writers break this rule.”

Love it! I’ve been out of school for a while and am now finding myself writing short bits at my job to get the boss to buy things for my department. It is always great to get some tips! Thanks!

John (couldn’t reply to “thread”)
I actually do hope there will be another opportunity as I do enjoy sharing what I’ve learned but given what I produced I worry that was the last time they will allow me to contribute *smiles*

Another problem is that the passive can be vague. Eg. You can write “The man was bitten” but it begs the question, “by whom?”

Regarding the phrase “begs the question,” Orwell’s #5 comes to mind (not to mention the fact that it’s one of the most misused phrases in the English language).

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“omit needless words”
Strunk and White abbbreviated Rule #2.
The other shorter alternative is
KISS ( keep it simple stupid) .
It violates rule #1

“This is tricky because much of the writing published on the internet is highly technical.”

Good technical writers know these things and revel in them.

@Andreas
The cheek!
I give you 1 quite. One less would have been good. It sounds snobbish and stupid? Tough cookies. If I want your opinion about me, I’ll give it to you.
I did not use ‘almost’, ‘even’, ‘pretty much’ at all, what’s your point? If I have to write more direct than that, I have to use Borg idiom. I wanted to use a chiding tone and dammit, I did a good job of it too!

“3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
…
Less is always better. Always.”

The extra “always” on this one is so funny, I assume it was intentional.

@George

Haha! Thats better!

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Shrimmmp, you are right about that. I figured that breaking the rule would be worth it if I could help emphasize the point.

I read 1984 many years ago, and it reminds me of “the new word order”, which is taking place even as I write. George.W. Bush belongs to the illuminaty, a group of people made up of industrialist, polititonss and the most powerful people in the world. You can find out for yourselves, don’t take my word for it. The plan is for world domination, one law one world religeon, and centralised in Europe. Gordon Brown the British home secretary has plans that invove the new word order, ( British newspapers). Their plan will include micro chips in our hand or in ones forehead, these have already been acomplished by the FBI, they tested it on gas pumps in the US. Imagine that we wont be able to by any food or sell anythiing,
when we go into a store we will be scanned for the hidden chip in our hand or head. It will be on point of death if one refuses to have the chip which will be administered through a hypodermic injection. Then we will find out who is on the Lord’s side. There is much more for you to find out, so get searching and read the book of Revelations Chapter 13.

Milo, you’re right that George Orwell would be proud of what we’re doing to the world but you’re over extending the whole new world order thing [although George H.W. Bush certainly used the phrase, he's thinking about it for sure].

A new world order makes no sense. We can hardly manage our environment as it is. Look at what a controlled environment does to people: the Soviet Union, China, Islam. All ideologically dominated. No more initiative, social stagnation. Your grand scheme ends. You may be king of the dungheap but in the end you’re just running a pile of shit. Suppose your dystopian paradise comes into being. What are our supreme overlords going to do to us that they’re not already doing to us today?

Here is what will happen with your new world order. Global warming is causing major planet-wide changes to the ecology. That will drive very tough choices because people will no longer have an alternative. Your new world order will be swept away by untold millions who can’t be bothered being impressed. They will be poor, miserable, fed up and hungry. Try to control a population that sees its children die of hunger. Good luck with that one. It’s hard to rule the world when nobody gives a wet slap.

With these rules in mind what are we to make of the writings of Christopher Hitchens?

I think his writing is brilliant, although I’m not sure as I don’t understand most of it.

Never use the passive where you can use the active.

“This one is frequently broken”.

Too funny

Someone pointed that out earlier . I never claimed to be perfect.

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My 2 cents:

Avoid the use of automatic and superlative adverbs – these words (ex from the article – ‘incredibly’, ‘highly’), break rules #3 and #1, adding unnecessary and meaningless mass to your writing.

A personal rule: never describe something as ‘ironic’ or refer to ‘irony’ unless you take A FULL 30 SECONDS to evaluate the truth of that description. Actual irony is rare – paradox, coincidence, and the unfortunate are far more often the true circumstances to be thoughtlessly given the ‘irony’ title. This last sentence was brought to you by the passive voice.

Thanks for this post. I wish my high school English teacher, as good as she was, supplied this to help us with her instantaneous writing exercises back in the ’60′s. Maybe it’s not too late!

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This reminds me of David Bourland’s work on E-prime (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-prime). Bourland suggest that we should drop the verb “to be” in all its forms. This removes the passive voice and force the writing to be more precise.

For example, writing “the rose is red” lacks clarity. Roses don’t inhibit “red” in themselves. Color is an experience in the mind of the observer. To sharpen your message you can instead write “The rose appear red to me”. This gives information that we talk about a subjective experience.

Be sure to check out the link I provided for more details.

Thanks, for the link Daniel. I’d never head about E-prime before. I wonder how many people actually use it. It is certainly more accurate.

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Thanks for a very insightful and helpful post. Orwell is my house god and I believe that he was one of the most important intellectuals of the 20th century.

The erosion of the language is actually enslavement, since without a meaningful language we are unable to understand what goes on around us at all.

You’re right, Jesper. It feels like we lose more meaning every day, making it harder to understand the world, and to change it if we’d like to. Still, I we can all make a difference on an individual basis.

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I definitely agree with not using big words when a long one will do. There are rare cases that might be exceptions, like discussing a legal concept but in general I think that is really good advice.

What George Orwell says about these rules has really attracted me.there is no success in writing effectively unless one writes in simple language.

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En 1946 George Orwell escribió un ensayo, “Politics and the English Language” con cinco reglas para una escritura efectiva que te permita ofrecer tus ideas de la forma más clara posible.

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Never say ‘never’. Rule #4 – while stated using passive instead of active tense, passive tense is more appropriate in this case due to the generality of subject which it brings. Using an active tense would force specificity on the subject which would not be desirable.

“never” should never be said ??

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This topic is very effective for those writers who want to appear in any kind of competitive examinations

I think not for competitors but for other writers as well like news reporters and essay writers as well.
In short these are very very effective notes

I think someone mentioned Strunk somewhere up there. Orwell’s rules are a good brief of some of his rules. I think every writer should have a copy of The Elements of Style.

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I agree with these rules I write pretty much straight on avoid euphemisms when possible flowery language and 15 letter words people shouldn’t have to struggle through a piece of writing to get the point I do use alot of humor though when appropriate what do people think of that?

I think humor can be great in the right context.

yes if it fits use it. if it has no place what you are writing, its better to leave it out.

Hi,
This is one of the better articles I’ve read and will help me with my future writing! This is a great Blog too. Thanks for all the good stuff!

I agree Val very good info context is everything keeps your writing in perspective.

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It´s very interesting. I love Georges Orwell. I try write like him, but in spanish. I dont speak english very well sorry.

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I am interested in #2. I have been told many times that I write too pretentiously. I have even been told to ‘dumb it down’ many times. It isn’t intentional, it’s just the way I like to write. I guess I should give it more thought, but how do you know how simple you should write? I read classics, mostly older ones, where the vocabulary is atrocious. Then I read very simple, almost abrupt writings (e.g Paulo Coelho), and it just doesn’t have the same charm, although the authors seem very intelligent.

I don’t want to be pretentious, but I don’t want to live in a world where a big vocabulary is something to hide in shame.

re writing to pretentiously—I write the way I talk. from the hip –what you see is what you get –It’s just my personal style. If writing pretentiously is comfortable for you why back down.

Much better are the books about writing that are less prescriptive, that explain when it’s okay to break the rules.

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Hello,
I agree that you should use all 5 Rules of writing simply. Then, after you read them, understand one thing. Poetry is an Art. It is that Art that tends to bend these rules, depending on any particular word and the feeling you are trying to show. It may be an idea you might not be able to portray in any other way, except to break one of these rules. And, that is alright. You can never make rules that have to be sustained, no matter what. You can never be consistent and that is alright, as well. Only remember that it is the poem that is important, not the writer. And always keep in mind, Poetry is your entry to fun. It is also the reader’s entry to fun. They depend on us to make the poem fun, enjoyable, truthful as possible and helpful. Regards, ev.

Thanks for the posting of the five rules, i have just printed them out, and will study them carefully. The active over the passive voice idea makes alot of sense to me. I good writer like orwell probably kept that rule at the front of his mind constantly. because he seems, to me anyway, to have an amazing ability to turn a idea around and hit you with something very direct and abrupt to complete the idea. I don’t know if anyone else notices that. I have just finsihed reading down and out in Paris and london. Very good.

Great post. Some of this tips may be very useful to me.

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Nice to know.

@Andreas. You taught me something. I could not put my finger on what George said that while agreeing, was also irksome. Or rather quite irksome. Thank you.

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@Lola: “Writing it’s important but isn’t there other things more important going on around the world?”

Yes, but how would you learn about them?

2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

If you use the word utilize, in writing or speech, stab yourself repeatedly in the face with a broken beer bottle. Or, I suppose you could always just stop using it.

The comments demonstrate how little thought we put into our routine writing. Even though there is no teacher grading our writing, evaluations continue – and grammar counts, spelling counts, capitalization counts. Vomiting thoughts onto the page is not writing, it is the opposite. Rather than communicate, often it only confuses.

Writing takes effort. Writing well requires work, thought and practice. Effective communication is worth the sweat.

These are certainly useful guidelines. However, they bear only a tenuous connection to writing well. They are to writing well as arithmetic is to engineering.

the rules actually come from the Orwell essay: “Politics and the English Language” published in 1946

It’s a damned good essay all the way through, very thought provoking and fully applicable today.

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I must say that anyone who has a real grasp of Orwell through his writings and many of his interviews with himself, will agree wiht me that this essay is not meant to be taken the way that it was obviously taken by these readers.
I chose to break down his writing style and analyze “politics and the english language” for a course final paper at my university. The entire paper can be seen as sarcasm. Though he brings up very pertinent thoughts about writing, it is nothing that the common person does not know. He breaks the rules himself often in his own works. It was not meant to be completely serious. If you can grasp what he was saying in that sense, then you can explain it to a child, and you will understand.
Yes, you should follow those rules, but we are human, and no writer is perfect. Many parallels cna be drawn between his paper and Mark Twain’s, “The literary offenses of Fenimore Cooper”

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I’m glad someone pointed out that these guidelines aren’t a recipe for becoming a good writer. The truth is that writing well isn’t something you can do by the numbers. Writing is about communication, but it’s also about entertaining and engaging the reader. Sometimes it’s not about the shortest path to the information, but the most interesting one.

It’s important to remember that Orwell was writing about the literature that occurred before and up to his time. That was a time before people lived lives that were saturation-bombed with media. He was encouraging people to forgo florid literary traditions, not write in a rudimentary and simplistic fashion. People offer advice with an eye toward the times they live in and sometimes that advice doesn’t translate to future media and communication methods. He was also talking about writing meant to evoke emotions, and a lot of people seem to be treating what he has said as an all-encompassing rulebook for all kinds of writing.

Economy and directness work well in conveying emotion because the reader doesn’t get tangled up in deciphering the prose. If you’re not writing to evoke emotions, then you’re going to bore the reader by slavishly following these rules.

Thank you for this great article.

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George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Blair
Whatever Blair the Eton school charity case could not be, Orwell was
Orwell ( or Blair) had made lasting contributions to our anologies of extreme political movements and their manipulations whatever the color or side

Rule six is of course the most important of these five rules. But it should be noted that you cannot even begin to apply rule six, “Break any of these rules sooner than saying anything outright barbarous” unless you have a good grasp of the first five rules, have internalized them, and understand why they are important to make writing both more clear and more elegant.

Several years ago Matthew Sweeney taught a seminar on creative writing in which he insisted vigorously upon a variant of rule #1: “No clichés!” A cliché is the least poetic word possible: poetry is about finding new ways to say things that we will all understand. Originality. He demonstrated this rule by pointing out that the great poet Seamus Heaney had a rule that he would *never* use the word “soul” in his work. The ultimate cliché, right? The ultimate cop-out. If you use the word “soul” it’s because you want to say something important that you don’t know how to say in original words. It took thirty years of writing and publishing poetry, huge critical aclaim, years of experience of teaching and reading before Heaney had the competence and confidence in his own mastery of language that he dared to write a poem containing the word “soul”.

Once you know the rules, once you know how to write and are comfortable and competent and masterful, then you can break any of the rules you like. Because they have served their purpose.

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I enjoyed reading this. I love to learn something new each day, and now I have. I will work on using more active writing than passive.

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Charlzz: “Writing well is not always about writing original, compelling prose. It is just as much the need to communicate effectively.”

Can you give a single example of compelling prose that is not effective communication, or vice versa?

“Twas brillig and the slithy toves
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Personally, I think that’s compelling, but I wouldn’t say it’s effective communication.

I’m goofing, not being snarky. Just so you know.

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Any advice?

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spielberg and lucas were pioneers in their film making. ”
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To Yochai (#99)
Actually it isn’t ‘forbiden’: In your link there is a comma (,) at the end which doesn’t belong and isn’t good HTML (it must have crept with some ‘copy’ and ‘paste’ operation – which happens often enough, that wonderful feature of word processing has that fault). The .ru domain, Russia with shades of KGB and now Mr. Putin makes us suspicious! Not them this time.

What an successful post this is.And though it isn’t the be all and end all of good writing they are good rules all the way to #6 inclusive.

See if this link works now:

http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit

Peter

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I agree with this one. “Never use the passive where you can use the active.” Whatever kind and type of writing should be in active voice. This is just one of the many rules in creative writing

Hey asdf

I really ( Must admit..) liked YOUR comment, it seemed to come from the heart and I also full heartedly agree with it.
Well..nearly..say for instance weric Clapton..yeah ..pas grandchose , but he wrote Leila..Steven Spielberg Well he put the money he mad e with shitty fils nto worthy causes, Madonna, her music is as shitty as it gets I mean it doesn t even count..but she had a vision and a dream and that was to not join the fate of her sisters (all women , living in a mysognist agesm riddled society..) and postulated already in 1987 that she was in it for the long run.

Which she did!
Apart from that yeah, there has been such a losss of meaning and talent in writing ,but also in the other arts like Fine Arts(Does anybody LIKE Damien Hirst? so why isn t he all over the place on Tea Cups, towels as Van Gogh is)

Ecclesiastes:
I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all

Hey asdf I’ ve retained your attention far to long
Bye.The quote is for YOU, ’cause I agree with you nevertheless..

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LOOK I DIDN T GOOGLE IT RIGHT NOW..BUT I THINK “FASCISM” WAS COINED IN RELATION TO MUSSOLINI’S RISE.

IN ANY CASE : WHY SHOULD THAT MEAN THAT THE EU IS A FASCIST ORGANSATION…ONLY BECAUSE IT INITIALLY STARTED OUT WITH THE WORD “ECONOMIC” IN IT?

D’YU FIND THAT LOGICAL?

WHAT’S YOU R BEEF WITH THE EU, ARE YOU A ‘APATRITIC AMERICAN ‘, WHO CAN T FATHOM THE IDEA OF A PARALLEL SUPER POWER OR WHAT ?

YEP ANDREAS

AGREE WITH GEORGE HERE.
NOW ..

I DON’ T WANT TO TIRE OUT ANYBODY’ S PATIENCE BY USING A WELL WORN CLICHE..AS IN COULDN’T ‘QUITE PUT MY FINGER ON IT’,…either, BUT IT BASICALLY SUMS UP WHAT I WAS THINKING ,TOO.

OK

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I WAS DELEBERATELY OR NOT SO DELIBERATELY USING OBSFUCATING LANGUAGE..

SEE.. GOT PUNISHED! CAN ‘T EVEN SPEKK THE WORD!

NEVER COULD, AND WHEN I HEARD IT THE FIRTS TIME IT TOTALLY SEEMED TO DEAFEAT THE PURPOSE.
(IF YOU KNOW WHAT i MEAN)

You won!

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keep it up!

Amazing Rules. Seriously you have done a very good job to share these effective rules with us here.

I love how you said, “I’m sure it contains imperfections” and then right after you said, “The Key is…,” which is a metaphor used in almost every piece of writing. But very useful thanks im prepped not for my english exam.

*prepped now

Emily, what text does the course use?

There’s a writing course at my school that studies William Strunk’s The Elements of Style, a classic in the field.

If you enjoyed this post, you’ll really love Strunk’s stuff. Some of it parallels Orwell’s essay, actually.

Peace,

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A very useful list. Best regards!!!

I wish my high school English teacher, as good as she was, supplied this to help us with her instantaneous writing exercises back in the ’60’s. Maybe it’s not too late!

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I would love to see a post about how you applied these rules to your 1st draft post.

Thank You

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I like short words too. It’s easier to read and understand this way. Thank you for tips.

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