Richard Leader's Essay: The Case For Short Words

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Richard Leader, a professor at St.Paul’s School and a very famous writer, discusses small and big words in his article “ The Case for Short words ” published in RICHARD LEDERER. Leader present the small word has so many fantastic effect and the small word is best in all the words. Fist, he emphasizes that it is really clear, like a light in the night, can make everything more distinct. Second, he speculates the most famous authors like use small words, because it is so refining and really easy make everyone understand what author say. In conclusion, he points the small words can make article more succinct.
Nike’s slogan is “ just do it.” Only three words can make everybody remember that forever. Small words is concise and impressive when you see or hear that at tv or advertising board. In Richard Lederer’s article, he reminds using short word can make whole article feels delicacy. By contrast, long words make us feel very vulgar and unattractive. Short words is really useful for author, like he say “A lot of small words, more than you might think, can meet your needs with a strength,
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Big word also is a really important content in our daily life. But, I think big word is really useless and unacceptable. Especially when I study math in my academic class. When I got some big trap that make me fell really not understand, I ask my friends to help me relieve perplex. If my friends are not really understand my problem or do not have enough abilities to do that. They always say big words, that include a lot contents, but I still unaccepted. Fortunately, we have professors who can use small words to solve all my trouble in my academic class or assignment. When the professors say the small and succinct words, I don’t need reflect so many possibilities in a small word. For example, if I do not understand geometry, professor just need say use Pythagorean theorem or other theorems that I can directly know how can I fix that

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