Explain enough without losing the point
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For her design seminar, Jo used an analogy between a crowded noticeboard and a busy screen: in both, competing messages could make one instruction hard to find. The comparison improved clarity because her classmates could picture a familiar situation before studying the diagram. Her tutor also praised the conciseness of the explanation. Jo had removed repeated phrases while retaining the details needed to understand the relevant similarity, so the comparison supported the argument instead of becoming a second complicated subject.
Jo revised the analogy when a classmate assumed that every feature of a noticeboard had an equivalent on a screen. To restore clarity, she named the specific similarity she intended and explained where the comparison stopped. That addition did not defeat conciseness, because the extra sentence prevented a likely misunderstanding. The group agreed that a short explanation succeeds when it preserves the necessary meaning, rather than when it reaches the lowest possible word count at any cost.
Before you move on
Look away from the passage. Can you explain each focus word in your own words?
Original fictional passages for vocabulary practice.