On Display: "For Brevity's Sake" - The Short Story: Writers and their Craft
The Oxford English Dictionary defines brevity as “being short in speech or writing; contraction into few words, conciseness, terseness”. That we encounter brevity on a daily basis should come as no surprise. Twitter, one of the most widely used social networking services, is designed to only allow users 140 characters to convey thoughts, news, or commentary in dispatches known as Tweets. Most academic journal articles feature an abstract that summarizes the salient points of the document in a very brief paragraph, comprised of no more than a few sentences.
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