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There are many ways in which an idea can be expressed in English; writing can be verbose or cryptic, flowery or plain, poetic or literal. The manner of expression is the writing style. Style is not about correct use of grammar, but about how well you communicate with likely readers.
Everythong written with vitality expresses that vitality; there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
Raymond Chandler
The Simple Art of Murder
It is golden rule always to use, if possible, a short old Saxon word. Such a sentence as “so purely dependent is the incipient plant on the specific morphological tendency” does not sound to my ears like good mother-English—it wants translating.
Charles Darwin
Letter to John Scott
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Zobel, J. (2004). Good style. In: Writing for Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-422-7_2
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