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... phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen - house . I list below , with notes and examples , various of the tricks by means of which the work of prose- construction is habitually dodged : DYING METAPHORS A newly ...
... phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen - house . I list below , with notes and examples , various of the tricks by means of which the work of prose- construction is habitually dodged : DYING METAPHORS A newly ...
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... phrase " success or failure in competitive activities . ” This had to be so , because no modern writer of the kind I am discussing — no one capable of using phrases like " objective consid- eration of contemporary phenomena ” —would ...
... phrase " success or failure in competitive activities . ” This had to be so , because no modern writer of the kind I am discussing — no one capable of using phrases like " objective consid- eration of contemporary phenomena ” —would ...
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... phrases “ which from verbosity ... are rendered more perplexed and incomprehensible not only to common readers but to lawyers themselves . " 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 The only period in American history when plain language was the language ...
... phrases “ which from verbosity ... are rendered more perplexed and incomprehensible not only to common readers but to lawyers themselves . " 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 The only period in American history when plain language was the language ...
Contents
Simplicity WILLIAM ZINSSER | 13 |
Freewriting PETER ELBOW | 19 |
Revising Your Own Manuscript | 28 |
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