the entire premise of an argument. Conversely, to instruct a reader to not do something, and to not show what should be done instead, is just as bad. George Orwell, in his essay “Politics and the English Language”, explains some of the flaws of modern language, and proposes what must be done to improve it. To summarize his essay, Orwell crafts a list of six rules that a writer must not break. He takes caution against writing in the very way that his six rules instruct a reader not to, and this works