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Spotting jargon in your own draft with Quiller-Couch's Interlude on Jargon (1916)
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For writers revising scripts, copy or articles. It arranges what one 1916 lecture says about padded phrasing, vague abstract nouns and elegant variation into a revision checklist. It is a documentary reading of one Project Gutenberg text, untested, and makes no claim the advice matches current usage.
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Spotting jargon in your own draft with Quiller-Couch's Interlude on Jargon (1916)
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For writers revising scripts, copy or articles. It arranges what one 1916 lecture says about padded phrasing, vague abstract nouns and elegant variation into a revision checklist. It is a documentary reading of one Project Gutenberg text, untested, and makes no claim the advice matches current usage.
Useful starting points
- Count how many different names your draft gives one subject; the lecture treats switching names as a sign of timidity.
- Mark each sentence built on a passive phrase or a vague noun and look for a version using an active verb and a concrete noun.
- Search for stock connecting phrases such as 'with regard to' and see whether a plain statement works instead.
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