Paul Roberts How To Say Nothing In 500 Words Analysis

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Maybe it is possible to learn how to say something within these 500 words after reading Paul Roberts’ essay, “How to Say Nothing in 500 Words”. In this reading you can tell Roberts’ has some very strong points, but also some that don’t make sense and I could argue such as obvious content. Before reading this essay, I didn’t realize how limp my words were and how I seemed to be lying to myself about how awful of a writer I was. Hopefully, after reading this essay, the nothingness of my essays become something vivid and attention grabbing. Roberts’ talks about “Avoiding the less obvious content”, by making a list of arguments but then not to use them because they come to everyone else’s mind also. So if we are all thinking of the same topics