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George Orwell on writing: Six little rules…

George Orwell on writing, from Politics and the English Language.  Good rules to write by for everyone, including Waubonsee students:

(i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

(ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do.

(iii) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

(iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active.

(v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

(vi) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

George Orwell on writing: Johnson: Those six little rules | The Economist.

The Orwell Prize (Long List)

 

 

The Orwell Prize Long List has been announced…

Bingham, Tom The Rule of Law (Allen Lane)

Bullough, Oliver Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus (Penguin)

Butcher, Tim Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa’s Fighting Spirit (Chatto & Windus)

Chang, Ha-Joon 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism (Penguin)

De Waal, Edmund The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance (Chatto & Windus)

Dunmore, Helen The Betrayal (Fig Tree)

Hall, John A. Ernest Gellner (Verso)

Hatherley, Owen A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (Verso)

Hitchens, Christopher Hitch-22 (Atlantic Books)

Malik, Zaiba We Are a Muslim, Please (William Heinemann)

Moqadam, Afsaneh Death to the Dictator! (The Bodley Head)

Morris, Ian Why the West Rules for Now (Profile)

Mullin, Chris Decline and Fall (Profile)

O’Toole, Fintan Enough is Enough (Faber)

Richards, Steve Whatever It Takes: The Real Story of Gordon Brown and New Labour (Fourth Estate)

Spufford, Francis Red Plenty (Faber)

Thorpe, D. R. Supermac: The Life of Harold MacMillan (Chatto & Windus)

Walter, Natasha Living Dolls (Virago)

Long Lists | The Orwell Prize.