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• Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a…
• The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.
• If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!
• It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.
• Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.
• The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers…
• A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
• The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place,
• The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.
• A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.
• In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing…
• In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the…

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