Re: Overuse of "It"

[Jean Hollis Weber <jean05 -at- jeanweber -dot- com>]

Karen wrote:
 > I'm looking on the web for good examples for avoiding the usage
 > of this pronoun; however, finding hits on wordiness and overuse
 > of it can confuse the search engines.
 >
 > Does anyone have any good links for me to distribute to my
 > scientific co-workers?

I highly recommend John A. Brogan's "Clear Technical Writing" 
(McGraw-Hill, 1973, ISBN 0070079749), an excellent resource. If 
you don't collapse from shock at the "List Price" on Amazon, 
you'll find several used copies are available at a reasonable price.

I have a summary of sample sentence structures to replace "it 
is", "there is" and similar structures on this page:
http://jeanweber.com/howto/stressing.htm

Good luck! -- Jean
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