RE: What not to write when you have no content

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

It doesn't sound as if it was intended as anything other than serious (if a
bit "insensitive," as the article states). And of course the first graf in
the article made it sound a bit more horrible than it actually was, as the
latter part of the article reveals.


Bonnie Granat
http://www.GranatEdit.com
 

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> I saw an article on the Web and could not believe my
> eyes until I went to the alleged source. I found this:
> 
> http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&st
> oryID=2006-08-15T201649Z_01_N15420743_RTRIDST_0_AIRLINES-NORTH
WEST.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna
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> In the past, I've seen instances of writers using
> greeking or other forms of meaningless content to bulk
> out draft documents, in order to get a more accurate
> page count for the final, or to get page breaks set in
> advance. Sometimes, people forget to comb out their
> spurious content - I think that is what we have here. 
> This highlights the need for outside reviews and for
> writers to not try to edit their own work.
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> Keith Hood
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> ACS, Inc.
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