Too much brevity - a contradiction?
June 24th, 2004 by Bill
Here’s a curious one - an oxymoron, I suppose. One of the posts on Writelife came up in a Google search for "Too much brevity in writing." It struck me as funny, the idea of too much brevity.
Despite the seeming contradiction in the phrase, there is probably something to the notion of excessive trimming. Or rather, not so much too much trimming for the sake of concision, but lack of information.
There is a big difference between being brief, concise and to the point, and leaving out the information people are looking for. Brevity is about removing the superfluous, not the essential.
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