ACT Preparation / Unit 5 ACT 0411 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Too Much Detail Is Weak Too
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The idea
Support can fail by excess as well as by lack: detail beyond what the point needs buries the point instead of proving it.
In practice
A paragraph on attendance does not need the brand of seed each bed used.
Where people slip
Keep the detail the point requires. The rest, however vivid, competes with the point for the reader's attention.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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