Writing Intelligible English Prose: Conciseness vs. Verbosity
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Tarih
2019
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Erişim Hakkı
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Özet
When writers perform writing, their primary aim is to communicate instantly withreaders and to achieve this they need to be clear and concise because conciseness provides anupper hand for the writer in disseminating the message. An overwritten text filled withredundant words may distract readers, hence may prompt quit-reading; therefore, academicwriters should avoid wordiness. Accordingly, this study aims to help non-native writers ofEnglish eliminate wordiness in their papers; inform them about the importance ofconciseness for vigorous writing, and make some suggestions on how to trim theirgratuitous writing style. In line with that, this study investigated the introductions, whereconciseness and clarity are crucial, of a hundred research articles written in English byTurkish speakers, and then examples of redundancy were pruned to a word or shorterclauses, or removed at all. Finally, both original and modified texts were presented to fiftyreaders of English to determine which version of texts is easier to understand. The resultsrevealed that Turkish writers of English use unnecessarily long phrases/sentences andexpletives/it clauses in their papers, and Turkish readers of English favour conciseness.
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Anahtar Kelimeler
Eğitim, Eğitim Araştırmaları,Edebi Teori ve Eleştiri
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Söylem Filoloji Dergisi
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4
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2
