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Checking your own prose for reader effort with Spencer's Philosophy of Style, Part I
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Helps writers and editors review a draft they wrote, using ten questions drawn from the first part of Spencer's 1852 essay on economy of attention, each tied to a located passage. It is a curator's reading of one public-domain text file, untested, and makes no claim that Spencer's statements are correct or current.
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Checking your own prose for reader effort with Spencer's Philosophy of Style, Part I
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Helps writers and editors review a draft they wrote, using ten questions drawn from the first part of Spencer's 1852 essay on economy of attention, each tied to a located passage. It is a curator's reading of one public-domain text file, untested, and makes no claim that Spencer's statements are correct or current.
Useful starting points
- Mark each sentence in your draft that takes visible effort to read before changing anything.
- Look for long gaps between a word and the word it qualifies, and for modifiers placed after what they change.
- Treat the essay as one argument from 1852, not as established science of readability.
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