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"Clutter" in (writing about) science writing

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Paul Jump, "Cut the Clutter", Times Higher Education: Is there something unforgivably, infuriatingly obfuscatory about the unrestrained use of adjectives and adverbs? In a word, no.  But Mr. Jump is about to tell us, approvingly, about some "science" on the subject: Zinsser and Twain are quoted by Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn, assistant professor of public policy at [...]

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