Isaac Asimov's Use Of Unnecessary Adjectives
Teachers and those involved in the writing process concern themselves over the issue that writers abuse adjectives in their writing. For example, in the Course Reader week five materials the lecturer gives the following quote, “Isaac Asimov warns writers against ‘a having thick layer of fatty, adjectival froth’ in their work.” [Before the Golden Age: A Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930s, p.179, Doubleday, 1974.]. Asimov’s warning puts an eloquent exclamation point to the point concerning adjective misuse. Both novices and experienced writers face this quandary, and simply put, meaningless adjectives deaden the prose. The following example helps answer the question of why unnecessary adjectives stifle text.
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