Instructors in legal writing tell us to feature nouns, which identify actors and those acted upon, and verbs, which represent action. This is good advice because nouns and verbs are the essential components of a good story. They answer the question, “Who did what to whom?”
Conversely, writing instructors tell us to curb our use of adjectives and adverbs so as not to over-editorialize. Each adjective or adverb “modifies” (ascribes a quality to; adds information to) a noun or verb. With each such qualification, we tell the reader how to think. If overdone, such directives undermine our overarching purpose, which is to help the reader form a judgment independently and thus embrace it willingly.
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