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Opinion | If You Have Something to Say, Then Say It (Published 2021)
A speech that is carefully written in literary English, and is then read, is not delivered in spoken English (spoken English and written English are two different languages, believe it or not) and sounds unnatural. Besides, in reading it, the turning of the pages and the occasional stumbling over words adds an artificial note. Memorizing a speech m
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what students in turn write for the English teacher is more florid than what they would write for anybody else. They reach for a “literary” style that they think the teacher wants and that they assume is “good English.” But this style is no part of who they are. Nor is it necessarily good English; much of what academics write and read is fuzzy and
... See moreWilliam Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
