Coming under heavy fire from tutor at the moment for lack of conciseness. I thought I’d been getting much better at this. However I realised today that I’m missing something key. What I’m already pretty decent at is being concise in expressing particular points; writing short sentences and avoiding long words—I probably use more unnecessary long words in speech than in writing. The thing I’m missing, I think, is being concise about choosing what points to try to make at all. I tend to go the Bernard Williams write-everything-you-know-about-this approach which isn’t really very interesting.