Wednesday, May 04, 2011

A Way to Fight Bafflegab

Above is a photo of beads that represent the words in the two sentences below.

Sentence #1
Recommendations to the X Council regarding research preparation standards and to doctoral programs for strengthening course work that prepares counselor educators as researchers would be the critical outcome for these studies.  31 words

Sentence #2

From these studies, we could recommend how the X Council should standardize ways schools of counseling prepare students to understand the research process, and we could recommend how doctoral programs could strengthen course work that prepares as researchers those who educate counselors.   42 words     

Of the sentences above, which one informs readers more quickly and completely? 
Do the verbs help?

Are shorter sentences always better than longer ones? 

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