Jon Purdy's take on English sentence length

Writing for an internet audience means writing short, easily-consumed sentences thatcan be rapidly skimmed for content, and which dont force the reader to continueslogging through a wordy explanation when a short bullet point would havesufficed, because reading on a screen is unnatural and tiring, not to mention thatcontemporary literary tastes tend toward the clear and plebian in lieu of the floridpurple prose of yesteryear, the equivalents of whose borderline poetic constructions inmodern form tend to read as overly complex at best and run-ons at worst, again, inlarge part because they dont follow one of the simple rules of modern literature:information is paramount, and how information is presented has become much lessimportant than what it actually is—temporarily disregarding standards of readabilityand good taste—so the obvious choice is minimalism and succinctness (and theepitome of this is Twitter, which a comment already mentioned) especially because itssignificantly easier to write many brief sentences than one long one that retains even amodicum of comprehensibility. @writeabilityjrd

Jon Purdy's take on English sentence length

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