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Perhaps a sentence is so excessively leng and cluttered that the reader, hacking
his way through «U the verbiage, simply doesn't know whatffiha .writer neons.
Perhaps a sentence has been so shoddily constructed that the reader could read
it ...
Perhaps a sentence is so excessively leng and cluttered that the reader, hacking
his way through «U the verbiage, simply doesn't know whatffiha .writer neons.
Perhaps a sentence has been so shoddily constructed that the reader could read
it ...
Page 17
Perhaps a sentence has been so shnddily constructed that the reader could read
it in any of several ways. Perhaps the writer has switched pronouns in
midsentence, or has switched tenses, so the reader loses track of who is talking
or when ...
Perhaps a sentence has been so shnddily constructed that the reader could read
it in any of several ways. Perhaps the writer has switched pronouns in
midsentence, or has switched tenses, so the reader loses track of who is talking
or when ...
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And those choices are what Baker dramatizes with all the false starts and
rambling sentences. The computer is a marvelous tool, but it does not necessarily
facilitate the writing process. On the contrary, it may cause more problems than it
...
And those choices are what Baker dramatizes with all the false starts and
rambling sentences. The computer is a marvelous tool, but it does not necessarily
facilitate the writing process. On the contrary, it may cause more problems than it
...
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Contents
Selection Slanting and Charged Language | 2 |
We cannot communicate without bias Even when our intentions are | 11 |
Simplicity WILLIAM ZINSSER | 13 |
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| Title | Exploring language |
| Editor | Gary Goshgarian |
| Edition | 7 |
| Publisher | HarperCollins College Publishers, 1995 |
| ISBN | 0673523500, 9780673523501 |
| Subjects | College readers English language |
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