Pepper your briefs, letters, emails, and memoranda with extraneous names, dates, and numbers.
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While conducting over one hundred private writing tutorials with professionals, I have found many who try to communicate clearly by writing the “short, declarative sentences” our middle school teachers taught us to write. (See Writing Tip “Of Lawyers, Sharks, and Hemingway.”) Ironically, they clutter these short declarative sentences with “transitions” that overlap and thicken their sentences, making their writing even more difficult to read.
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