만약 어떤 단어/글자를 빼내더라도 그 정보가 큰 손상없이 그대로 전달될 수 있다면 가차없이 삭제해라.
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Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.
| instead of | use |
| the question as to whether | whether |
| there is no doubt but that | no doubt |
| used for fuel purposes | used for fuel |
| he is a man who | he |
| owing to the fact that | since(because) |
| the fact that he had not succeeded | his failure |
--William Strunk Jr. from TheElementsOfStyle
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see also QuotesAboutSimplicity
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The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone. -- Ernest Hemingway|}}
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone. -- Ernest Hemingway|}}
페이지이름에 적용
TheElementsOfStyle의 법칙은 페이지이름에도 적용된다. 앞서의 "간결성"과 비슷한데, 만약 어떤 단어/글자를 빼내더라도 그 정보가 큰 손상없이 그대로 전달될 수 있다면 가차없이 삭제해라. EdwardTufte가 말했듯이 "더 이상 빼낼 것이 없을 때 완성된다."
예를 들어, "XXXX에대한설명"보다는 "XXXX설명"이 낫고, 이것보다는 "XXXX"가 더 낫다. 물론 판단은 상황에 따라 달라질 수 있다.
see also ClarityBrevityDecorum