Case study

Written communication
 Paragraph
It would not do to say that the snoozing reader is too dumb or to
o lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. My sympathies ar
e with him. If the reader is lost, it is generally because the writer
has not been careful enough to keep him on the path.
This carelessness can take any number of forms. Perhaps a senten
ce is so excessively cluttered that the reader, hacking his way thr
ough the verbiage, simply does not know what it means. Perhap
s a sentence has been so shoddily constructed that the reader c
ould read it in any of several ways. Perhaps the writer has switc
hed pronouns in mid-sentence, or has switched tenses, so the re
ader loses track of who is talking or when the action took place.
Perhaps Sentence B is not a logical sequel to Sentence A-the wri
ter, in whose head the connection is clear, has not bothered to p
rovide the missing link. Perhaps the writer has used an importan
t word incorrectly by not taking the trouble to look it up. He ma
y think that "sanguine" and "sanguinary mean the same thing, b
ut the difference is bloody big one. The reader can only infer (sp
eaking of big differences what the writer is trying to imply.
Faced with these obstacles, the reader is at first a remarkably tenaci
ous bird. He blames himself – he obviously missed something, and
he goes back over the mystifying sentence, or over the paragraph,
piecing it out like an ancient rune, making guesses and moving. Bu
t he would not do this for long. The writer is making work too hard
, and the reader will look for one who is better at his craft.
The writer must therefore constantly ask himself: What am I trying t
o say? Surprisingly often, he does not know. Then he must look at
what he written and ask Have I said it? Is it clear someone encount
ering the subject for the first time? If it's not, it is because some fu
zz has worked its way into the machinery. The clear writer is a pers
on clear-headed enough to see this stuff for what it is: fuzz
I don't mean that some people are born clear-headed and are theref
ore natural writers, whereas others are naturally fuzzy and will nev
er write well. Thinking clearly is a conscious act that the writer mu
st force himself, just as if he were embarking on other project that
requires logic: adding up a laundry list or doing an algebra proble
m. Good writing doesn't come naturally, though most people obvi
ously think it does…..
Questions:
a) What is fuzz?
Ans: Fuzz in writing means out of track writing Sometimes the reader might
get confused about what he is reading and is unable to generate the ide
a about what the writer wants to say. Fuzz is created from the wrong flo
w of matter. Fuzz creates confusion and hinders the reading activity.
b) Rewrite the given case study simply and precisely
Ans: Some writers are quite fuzzy. They write in such way that some people
don't understand what they actually want to say, Readers sometimes lo
st their interest in reading and move ahead. They blame themselves for
not understanding the matter, rather it the mistake of writer that he do
esn't link the paragraph one to the paragraph two. The writer has to tak
e care of the matter and the flow of matter that everything should be pr
operly framed and linked. The clear writer is a person clear-headed eno
ugh to see this stuff for what it is fuzz. I don't mean that some people ar
e born clear-headed and are therefore natural writers, whereas others
naturally fuzzy and will never write well. The writer must force himself t
o write in a logical way.