There is a belief that English acquired from their traditional schooling. The complexity of long words, long sentences, difficult words are a symbol of intellect, education and enlightenment. Most educational systems teach that communication is for impressing others and not expressing oneself.
When there is unable to grasp that good written English does not have of whatever you have. Language is absolutely requires an understanding of its ideal quality.
Here, a glimpse of principles-
Short sentences is better than long.
Simple words is good.
Avoid long.
Embrace active verbs.
There are the merits of hyphens-
Hyphen is a stylistic choice.
Hyphen used by the original questioner.
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