jueves, 24 de febrero de 2011

Conciseness

Conciseness means brevity and completeness. The entire underlying premise of it is to omit needless words.

Exercise on Page 100

Adam Smith, the founder of Modern Economics, proposed controversial theory in the eighteen century. Smith of Scottish descent, wrote the first study of political economy. The wealth of nations was published in the same year that Americans declared the independence from England, in 1776. Smith’s book pointed out the interdependence of freedom and order, economic processes, and free trade laws. Although his thinking did not really affect economic policies, its influence in the next century was considerable. “The invisible hand” and “Laissez-faire” are synonymous with Smith’s name. Business people will smile and make a response like “ He was a good man- really understood how business works” if you say “Adam Smith” the opposite will happen if you say his name to liberal reformers, they will say “ He was an evil man really sold the average citizen down to the river”. Both reactions are extreme but they responses indicate how controversial Smith’s ideas are now.

5 comentarios:

  1. Good job applying wordy strategies in the last sentence, you keep the meaning of the original one!

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  2. You did a good job in the last part, because it was difficult for me to reduce it.

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  3. Also, "point out" is a phrasal verb, so you can look for one word synonym in order to make it shorter, such as allude or indicate.

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  4. Yeap! agree with Pete about the use of the phrasal verb. But nice job!

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