Sir Harold Evans
The acclaimed editor, author of Do I Make Myself Clear?, on how to write better and whether precision and concision can survive the digital age
by EDWARD FELSENTHAL
Jun 03, 2017
2 minutes
You discuss many writing evils in your book, from pleonasms to pesky pronouns. What kind of bad writing upsets you most? Writing that is deliberately designed to deceive—insurance policies, political statements. Business verbosity wastes money, confuses millions. I find myself getting much more angry about the moral question of obligation of fairness than I do about a misplaced semicolon.
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