"concise prose" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the term to describe any writing that is clear and to the point without wasting any words. For example, "The author's admission essay was written in concise prose that was both compelling and effective."
And Hemingway's notes to himself from Cuba show a parallel artistic imperative: the search for blunt, descriptive, concise prose.
It is important to write the statement in clear, concise prose, avoiding the use of formulaic words or phrases.
The undoubted strengths of The Economist are its greatest undoing: its intellectual rigour; its distillation of dizzying amounts of information into concise prose; and its rationality.
(c) All but two.45 The Economist tries to maintain a clear, concise prose style, but how well have we done?
Garbo Laughs by Elizabeth Hay (Constable & Robinson) is a delight: funny and sad, a must for movie buffs and appreciators of witty, concise prose.
The attack made its way to The New Yorker, where it was published and described by editors as "the clearest and most concise prose" that Faulkner had ever written.
"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.
What I love about Gilgamesh – apart from London's concise, poetic prose – is the realistic depiction of Edith changing over time, motherhood being a major but not the only element of this. 5. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal by Jeanette Winterson This could so easily have been a "misery memoir", but Winterson writes with extraordinary compassion and generosity about her adoptive mother.
THE ECONOMIST tries to provide readers with concise, to-the-point prose.
It reveals him as a master of concise matter-of-fact prose, as a keen observer of daily life, full of pragmatic common sense, and also as a good judge of poetry.
But the genre writers wrote without sentimentality; their prose was concise and perceptive; in it the reader sees the life of which they wrote, rather than the writer's "technique".
