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... reader , hacking his way through all the verbiage , simply it doesn't know what the writer means . Perhaps a sentence has been so shoddily constructed that the reader could read it in Several any of two ort Op three different ways ...
... reader , hacking his way through all the verbiage , simply it doesn't know what the writer means . Perhaps a sentence has been so shoddily constructed that the reader could read it in Several any of two ort Op three different ways ...
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... reader will be lost , and there's no sin so grave , for the reader will not easily be lured back . Who is this elusive creature , the reader ? The reader is someone with an at- tention span of about sixty seconds — a person assailed by ...
... reader will be lost , and there's no sin so grave , for the reader will not easily be lured back . Who is this elusive creature , the reader ? The reader is someone with an at- tention span of about sixty seconds — a person assailed by ...
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... reader toward meaning . Writers reading their own drafts are aware of audience . They put them- selves in the reader's situation and make sure that they deliver information which a reader wants to know or needs to know in a manner which ...
... reader toward meaning . Writers reading their own drafts are aware of audience . They put them- selves in the reader's situation and make sure that they deliver information which a reader wants to know or needs to know in a manner which ...
Contents
Simplicity WILLIAM ZINSSER | 13 |
Freewriting PETER ELBOW | 19 |
Revising Your Own Manuscript | 28 |
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