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Sep-2020

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Plainness

Now that doesn't mean that plainness is the only good style, or that you should become a slave to spare, unadorned writing. Formality and ornateness have their place, and incompetent hands complexity can carry us on a dizzying, breath-taking journey. But most students, most of the time, should strive to be sensibly simple, to develop a baseline style of short words, active verbs, and relatively simple sentences conveying clear actions or identities. It's faster, it makes arguments easier to follow, it increases the chances a busy reader will bother to pay attention, and it lets you focus more attention on your moments of rhetorical flourish, which I do not advise abandoning altogether (see the upcoming section on rhetoric).

According to the text, what is correct about plainness?

a) Plainness means that students should aim to develop a baseline style of short words, active verbs and relatively simple sentences conveying clear actions or identities.b) Plainness is the only good style, so we should abandon formality and ornateness.c) Plainness sometimes makes it harder for readers to follow and to understand the arguments.d) If students focus on plainness, then they cannot pay any attention on rhetorical flourish.

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