This marks the difference between the expert technical writer and the amateur. "ACCURACY— TERSENESS— ACCURACY."
From Bulletin of the Technical and Engineering Society: Volumes 4-5 - Page 163
Colorado School of Mines. Technical and Engineering Society - 1908
How do we define accuracy? And, terseness, for that matter.
ReplyDeleteCrisp, curt, pithy, succinct. I love "succinct"; it is a word with three consonants in a row. Semi-colon inside or outside the quote?
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