![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.īreak any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous. Never use the passive where you can use the active. The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters of George Orwell represents an autobiography of sorts for a man with one of the keenest political eyes in modern. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. ![]() Never use a long word where a short one will do. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. In that essay, Orwell provides six rules for writers: In his essay "Politics and the English Language" (1946), Orwell wrote about the importance of precise and clear language, arguing that vague writing can be used as a powerful tool of political manipulation because it shapes the way we think. According to Irving Howe, Orwell was "the best English essayist since Hazlitt, perhaps since Dr Johnson." During most of his career, Orwell was best known for his journalism, in essays, reviews, columns in newspapers and magazines and in his books of reportage: Down and Out in Paris and London (describing a period of poverty in these cities), The Road to Wigan Pier (describing the living conditions of the poor in northern England, and class division generally) and Homage to Catalonia. ![]()
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