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• Remember our five major principles: Characters as subjects: Use main characters in your "story" as the subjects of most of your sentences. Actions as verbs: Express the main actions performed by (or on) these characters as verbs, not nouns. Old before new: Begin sentences with familiar information, and end them with information readers cannot predict. Short before long: Begin with a short, easily grasped segment of information the frames the longer, more complex segments that follow. This principle applies not only to sentences but also to paragraphs, sections, and whole documents. Topic then stress: Begin sentences with what they are "about" or "comment on"; end with words that should receive special emphasis. (查看原文)

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• Michael Crichton cited one: some of us feel compelled to use pretentious language to make ideas that we think are too simple seem more impressive. In the same way, others use difficult and therefore intimidating language to protect what they have from those who want a share of it: the power, prestige, and privilege that go with being part of the ruling class. We can keep knowledge from those who would use it by locking it up, but we can also hide facts and ideas behind language so impenetrable that only those trained in its use can find them. (查看原文)

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