Paul Roberts’, “How to
Say Nothing in 500 Words,” is about how to make an essay more full of
meaningful words and less about just using empty words to fill the word count.
At the beginning Roberts uses a scenario starts off what the article is about
and shows the everyday example of just trying to fill a word count instead of
trying to make focused ideas. The article shows a bad example that is short and
not full of ideas at all. After, Roberts then shows the fuller and extremely
well supported essay about the same subject. The article then goes on to
explain how you can be able to avoid all the mistakes from the first article by
using techniques that will help to develop a lot more full ideas. Roberts just
puts most of his article under headings and not really having much of a
conclusion.
I agree with the statements in the article but there is
some things that I would change. Roberts did a good thing by using a good
verses bad example of an essay to prove what to do and not to do when writing
an essay. The article was strong in the beginning and middle but it didn’t have
a good conclusion. In fact it didn’t have a conclusion at all, just another
supporting body part. Other than that it was a good informative article with
vary good supporting, structured body.
Work
Cited
Roberts, Paul. “How to Say Nothing in 500 Words.” The Longman Reader (2010): 316-27. Print.
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