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Reply to "Making an essay sound like a teenager wrote it."
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She could try the Hemingway Editor, which will indicate grade level readability. Might just help flag overly complicated sentences. [b]Fancy vocabulary doesn’t always sound smarter.[/b] [/quote] This is true. [/quote] Yes, and also more words are not better. "He descended down the curved staircase, his hand lightly grazing the bannister as his shoes tapped each step. Upon reaching the bottom of the wooden stairs, he gently turned left, into the handsomely furnished drawing room filled with morning sunlight." If none of that is germane to the story, consolidate and be direct. "He proceeded downstairs, to the well-lit drawing room." You only fluff it out if you're absolutely desperate to reach a required word count.[/quote] This is a matter of taste. Plenty of popular classics are written in the former style.[/quote]
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