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Archive Home > 2008 > July > 20 > A second bit on redundancy

A second bit on redundancy


July 20, 2008

Every critic of the writing art, most memorably Professor William Strunk of Cornell, has inveighed against redundancy. E.B. White quoted him in “The Elements of Style.” Let us listen up.

“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a....

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