{"id":4930,"date":"2015-03-12T12:39:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T12:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/writing-succinctly-is-always-fashionable\/"},"modified":"2015-03-12T12:39:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T12:39:42","slug":"writing-succinctly-is-always-fashionable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/newsroom\/2015\/03\/12\/4930\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Succinctly is Always Fashionable"},"content":{"rendered":"

The newspaper Azat Hayastan<\/em> (“Free Armenia”) published in 1921 offered the following advice\/requirement to its freelance correspondents: “Articles and correspondences must be short, summarized, and written in ink on a sheet of paper.”<\/p>\n

\"karch<\/p>\n

A few years later, in 1924, one of the first newspapers of then Soviet Armenia, Avant-garde<\/em>, printed such imperative announcements, trying to involve Soviet citizens in the task of writing: “Dear correspondent, try to express your thoughts succinctly sharp, clearly and accurately.”<\/p>\n

\"avangard<\/p>\n

The requirement to write clearly and succinctly was an avant-garde approach. Poetry, the fine arts, and life in general was constructed with this clarity. Time dictated a new rhythm, and the basis of all that is new is to get rid of the old and the long. <\/p>\n

Nearly a century later, the Internet confirmed the need to write succinctly.<\/p>\n

It is considered that public journalism developed simultaneously with fast and affordable tools of communication. But in all periods of history, even in the pre-Internet Age, attempts were made to broaden the field of information as much as possible, saturating it with responses, comments, and so on. <\/p>\n

Newspapers, by providing space to freelance correspondents, demonstrated that the voice of the people was audible also in the media. Writing succinctly became befitting for a fashionable and young person. <\/p>\n

Avant-garde<\/em> wrote a special article which described the symptoms of “sickly journalism”:<\/p>\n

“Generally among Armenian and especially among our young journalists, there is a sickly phenomenon: it is writing in a grandiloquent style and at length. Every correspondent wants to drag out, [write] as much as he can, thinking he will make what he’s written more remarkable this way, without thinking for a minute that he is only causing boredom to the reader.” <\/p>\n

\"seghm\"<\/p>\n

Success was attributed to journalists who were able to describe life as it was \u2014 for example, Russian journalists.<\/p>\n

\"rus<\/p>\n

A few decades will pass and the texts in the newspapers will become long-winded and, by and large, say nothing. The word sequences will no longer have a desire to appear fashionable. <\/p>\n

Nune Hakhverdyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The newspaper Azat Hayastan<\/em> (“Free Armenia”) published in 1921 offered the following advice\/requirement to its freelance correspondents: “Articles and correspondences must be short, summarized, and written in ink on a sheet of paper.”<\/p>\n

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