Concision

The basic idea of concision refers to brevity. Concision is the name for keeping things short and trying to get a message across in the fewest words possible or writing something in the fewest amount of words necessary to convey a message. Another way to describe concision is to use the word efficiency.

Example:

The sentence: The small, red ball was thrown to me by John.

This sentence can be simplified: John threw the small, red ball to me.

Or further simplified to: John threw the ball to me.

In this example the sentences are reduced without loosing the main point of the sentence. Some adjectives may have been lost but the idea remains intact.

Concision is important because it allows people to get a message in a faster amount of time. This is very important for professional writing, where detail and literary forms are not as prevalent as they are in the literary world.

Concision is important to several aspects of writing including, writing conclusions, writing instructions, and Web writing.

Conclusions utilize concision to end writings with emphatically. In conclusions you can simply restate points without having to explain them again. There is no need for long-winded conclusions.

Instructions need to have brevity and concision because they do not need to tell a story they just need to offer steps for an individual to follow to complete a task. Instructions do not need to be in paragraph form and it is often more efficient to use a list or bullet points when writing out instructions.

Web writing requires concision because a website wants to convey as much information as possible in as little viewing space as possible. If a sentence is 25 words it is harder to format than a sentence with the same message that is only 12 words. With Web Design there is always room to add a link to a page with more detail. Utilizing concision allows websites to more efficiently place images and information in the limited initial viewing space.