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“If you detect a needlessly complex style when you read, look for characters and actions so that you can unravel for yourself the complexity the writer needlessly inflicted on you.”
Joseph M. Williams
“When we knowingly write in ways that we would not want others to write to us, we abrade the trust that sustains a civil society.”
Joseph M. Williams, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace [with Pearson Writer Access Code]

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