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|  | Long Sentences? Use the Meat Cleaver One way to make your writing easier to get through is to reduce the size of your sentences. A rule of thumb is that your sentences should be between 12 and 17 words long, on average. Here’s a suggestion: Run your proposal through your word processor’s grammar checker; you will likely be surprised at the average length of your sentences. Shorter sentences are simpler to read than longer ones. Don’t worry that “dumbing down” your writing will insult the evaluators’ intelligence; they will be delighted if you take the effort to explain a complex technical or management plan in short, simple sentences.
Original Our approach is to work with City staff to identify feasible and practical structure alternatives at the onset of the project, along with their advantages and disadvantages, using proven tools, such as decision and evaluation matrices, which will be used in early strategy work sessions, to quickly compare and contrast these options, and to expedite reaching consensus. Revised Working with City staff, we will identify feasible and practical structure alternatives at the start of the project. Next, we will determine the advantages and disadvantages of each, using proven tools such as decision and evaluation matrices. We will make these evaluations early, in strategy work sessions. This will allow us to quickly compare and contrast the options, and reach consensus quickly.
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