Comment by MikeDelta
5 years ago
The same goes for junior writers who think that complex sentences and words are a sign of superiority, and later discover that the real (and bigger) challenge is writing clearly.
5 years ago
The same goes for junior writers who think that complex sentences and words are a sign of superiority, and later discover that the real (and bigger) challenge is writing clearly.
"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." – Blaise Pascal
Along the same lines, I recently reviewed a junior engineer's design document and pointed out to them a diagram showing the actors, their roles and interactions would have saved two pages of dense, complex text, and made the solution clearer.
"A picture is worth a thousand words.."