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2. What situation is that your writing has zero waste word and is easily and clearly understood?

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Hi, everyone!
Welcome to this page.
Nice to see you again!


I wrote in the previous pages, if you won't write your message in the least words,
you are said easily "Good-bye" by your readers and they stop reading rapidly.

How to check if your sentence length is suitable for your matters is
if every word has its unique role to express your matter in your sentence.

It is important that you clearly write in a detail what you want to say.
But repeating the same words twice or more without any your intents and its roles of strongly emphasizing,
only tends to give feelings, such as pertinacious.

If you will omit waste words,
your readers can easily concentrate what you want to tell.

So, I think, the least words sentence is of advantage for transmitting your words to reader's hearts clearly.

That is, if you construct properly your sentences,
your necessary words are fixed.
Then the number of necessary words is also fixed.



For example, we are asked to answer in words of a fixed number, in many examinations.
In Japan, we are often asked to answer in 20 (or some) letters in a school subject of reading of national language.
(We are sometimes requested to answer more than 100 letters.)
We must usually answer by more than 16 and less than 21 letters.
In fact, teachers set questions and answers,
as such if we write necessary words to answer a given question,
we can answer it in a given number of letters.


I will explain details of that situation.
For example, if we were asked "How does he feel?,"
we, at first, fix a core of our answer, such as "He feels funny." or "He feels sad."
Then we write how and why he feels funny or sad in a detail.
In our usual tests, when we write these matters all,
our answers are full of given spaces.

If there were any spaces left,
we are requested to write more words, such as detail reasons of his feelings.

And I do not insist on you that you must write only main parts of your sentence,
such as subjects, predicates, objects,
and I do not insist on you that you must omit modifying words.

For example, if you want to express "an apple,"
and if you must neatly fixed your readers images about the apple,
you must use modifying words,
such as "a red ripe and shinny apple"
or "an apple with bug eaten hole"
or "a small green apple which does not glow in Japan."
If, however, only one word, "an apple," can meat your needs,
only "an apple" without any modifying words is enough for your wants.
In that case, only "an apple" is appropriate word for your writing.

In a reality, all necessary words we need are needed,
you can write every word you want to write, if you do not feel wordily.
In reverse, a situation of lack of necessary words made a lack of talk.
Then you can not transmit your matter to your readers enough.


I wonder now you think "I understood how to write one sentence, but how do I make many sentences?"
I think that it is a reasonable and good question.
But I will explain it in the next next page.
Do you think "Is that subject written in the next page?," don't you?
Actually I have another important subject to explain left.
If you do not know who read your writings,
you can not transmit fully your mind to your readers,
because you do not know what your readers do not know.


Now, let's think about "Is it important for you that who is reading?" in the next page.




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