Ways of Nice Writing
I am reading articles of Prof. WuChang.Zhang recently. Maybe you
have not heard of him before, for he is teaching in HongKong
University, dean of economics and finance school, and he is also
a famous founder of new theory of property economics.
Why I write this article, you may want to know. The answer is
very obvious, for I find his articles very useful and helpful
for people like me, so I introduce some of the articles to you,
just like share a bottle of beer with a friend. In fact, share
beer with a friend is for nothing but happiness from friendship,
but for my writing this article, I have other intention. It is,
firstly practising my english, secondly promoting my ability
of logical thinking, finally for nothing but beer friendship.
Note that, I do not translate his articles word to word, but only
some important thoughts and words, so if you want to get original
words of Prof. WuChang.Zhang, you may read his articles directly.
Here is an article about how to write articles, and its original
title is < Ways of Nice Writing >.
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Ways of Nice Writing
Different languages in the world, but same ways of nice writing.
I also agree that, if someone, who understands two languages, is
good at one language, it is not possible that he is very bad in
another language.
In fact, my articles are not quite good, but fortunately, they
are clear and plain. I was not born talented, almost before the
time I was 30, I used to write over complicated and over flowery
articles, so it was not easy for others to understand me.
But one day, almost before the time I was 30, my teacher, Armen
Alchian called me to his office, and he told me formally that he
and other teachers were confident in my potential ability, but my
articles were too difficult to understand, and the most important
thing is to write clearly and plainly, or else it is difficult to
make a success.
After the interview, I thought myself that, my teacher seldom
arranged such kind of interview with his students, and he only
told me such a thing, so it was obviously of great importance.
For I studied and started to use english when I was already over
20, of course it is not possible for me to become a great writer,
but if I tried my best, I may write clearly and plainly enough.
There are many ways to write well, but you have to get rid of
your bad writing habit. Apparent bad habit is as following.
1) Over complicated and over flowery. But to write well, you have
to express yourself directly and frankly. This is very difficult
for all, by now, I write over complicated words sometime.
2) Rare and uncommon words. That is, if there are several words
able to express a same meaning, I prefer to choose the rare and
uncommon one, just as to tell people I am talented and know much
or have read many books. Fro
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