Be Concise
By Joe Ferry on Jul 3, 2008 in Editorial Services, Featured | comments(0)
(Third in a series of articles about improving your writing.)
As a newspaper editor, I used to remind my reporters that there was a finite amount of space for their stories. If they could save one or two words per paragraph in a 20-inc story, it might mean the difference between having their work run intact or having vital information clipped out by a ruthless copy editor under deadline pressure.
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