One of the best pieces of advice I
have ever received from an English professor is that less is more. When it
comes to writing a paper, especially a paper with a required word count, it is
easy to get caught up in adding fluff. Adjectives are great, but when you begin
to write sentences that just seem to go on forever in a continuous loop of just
repeating the same information and ideas that are the same as the notions that
you've continuously postulated over and over again ad infinitum in slightly
different forms and casts and configurations and styles and modes and specific
fashions, then it just turns into an endless loop of saying the same concepts
and theories and erudition in an infinitely long loop of repetitious nonsense
and extrapolation of the sort of same cerebration and excogitation that you've
predicated previously that just begins to completely lose its meaning and
context and imperative connotation and by the end of the sentence just ends up
not making sense anymore to the point where it's absolutely impossible in any
coherently justifiable way to efficaciously determine what it is that you were
actually trying to say in the first place. Readers don't like that. Content is
far more important than trying to sound smart by forcing vocabulary or by
stretching sentences to the point of incoherence.
-Wes
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