Monday, September 10, 2012

Cutting out "Lard"

Your Editing Toolbox: Cutting Out Lard

In Revising Prose, Richard Lanham lambastes writers for composing sentences fattened with meaningless "lard." Lanham offers his "Paramedic Method" for cutting out a sentence's fat and reducing its "lard factor."

- Courtesy of Chaz Bennett

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