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... there is more time to do it so the editing is heavier : when speaking , there's someone right there waiting for a reply and he'll get bored or think we're crazy if we don't come out with something . Most of the time in speaking , we ...
... there is more time to do it so the editing is heavier : when speaking , there's someone right there waiting for a reply and he'll get bored or think we're crazy if we don't come out with something . Most of the time in speaking , we ...
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... there's not enough left over to give to someone else . Simi- larly with language : there's only so much room in a person's brain , and if he speaks one language - let us say Spanish - really well , he'll be all filled up and won't learn ...
... there's not enough left over to give to someone else . Simi- larly with language : there's only so much room in a person's brain , and if he speaks one language - let us say Spanish - really well , he'll be all filled up and won't learn ...
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... there's one thing consistent about language it is that language is constantly changing ; when the Random House Dictionary of the English Language : 2nd Edition was pub- lished in 1988 , it contained 50,000 new entries , most of them ...
... there's one thing consistent about language it is that language is constantly changing ; when the Random House Dictionary of the English Language : 2nd Edition was pub- lished in 1988 , it contained 50,000 new entries , most of them ...
Contents
Simplicity WILLIAM ZINSSER | 13 |
Freewriting PETER ELBOW | 19 |
Revising Your Own Manuscript | 28 |
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