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Orwell’s Rules: Why Short Words Win in English
CEFR C1 · 5 min From my experience: I rewrote my professional biography four times. Each draft was shorter than the last. The fourth draft — eleven lines, no adjectives I couldn’t justify — was the one that landed me two callbacks in the same week. George Orwell wrote his six rules in 1946. Every…