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This is an extract from Do I Make Myself Clear?
Do I Make Myself Clear?, by Harold Evans (Little, Brown).
The prose throughout "Do I Make Myself Clear?" evokes the battlefield as well.
The overriding dictum of the author of "Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters" is that writers should get to the point and let most grammar rules be damned.
"Just today alone, I've read three or four instances of the word 'advocate' being used incorrectly!" Evans, at eighty-eight, has published "Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters" — a polemic and style guide about our ever-growing need for concise, understandable prose.
"Do I Make Myself Clear?" focusses on the usual suspects tackled by Strunk & White in "Elements of Style," or — more important to Evans — George Orwell: avoid the passive voice; eliminate redundancies; watch your pronouns; don't succumb to monologophobia (i.e., it's usually fine to repeat a word).
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A spate of recent books, from Randy Olson's "Don't Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style" to Cornelia Dean's "Am I Making Myself Clear?: A Scientist's Guide to Talking to the Public," seem like perfect assigned reading.
However, perhaps I should make myself clearer on what I did mean.
Have I made myself clear?
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