Concise Writing

While I was working on my business article this week, I came to the conclusion that I may be the only person who has ever written on the topic of business skills in the health profession. Relevant sources were few and far between, and very few were useful. However, thanks to the vast amount of information and resources available to BYU students, I was finally able to scrape together enough information to signify a valiant research effort. While writing the article, I kept thinking about what Mark Twain said about writing a short letter. Being restricted to one page with citations included would have been the most awesome thing ever as a teenager, but now I found it to be a real challenge! I must have changed my font, headers, and graphic 31,495,789 times before I got it right. It was a good experience to force myself to be as concise as possible while writing about a topic of interest to me. Moral of the story, it really is harder to write a short message than a lengthy one.