Day 239: Clarity is more important than style.

Who cares what a man’s style is, so [long as] it is intelligible, as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no more than the stylus, the pen he writes with; and it is not worth scraping and polishing, and gilding, unless it will write his thoughts the better for it. It is something for use, and not to look at.
(Henry David Thoreau)

Thoreau makes an essential point here: Style is practical, not aesthetic. Style is secondary to communication and should be guided by the writer’s purpose.

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Instead of striving to write in a particular style, a writer should strive to communicate thoughts in the most effective manner possible. Style is only valuable inasmuch as it improves the writer’s ability to communicate his or her ideas. As Thoreau says, use style as a tool to communicate.