RE: Teaching a practical business writing class and looking for professional rubrics

["Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com>]

Perhaps you can provide a concise alternative?

 

Leonard

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From: Jona Steenbrink [mailto:jsteenbrink -at- bluefinrobotics -dot- com] 
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 1:19 PM
To: Leonard C. Porrello
Cc: techwr-l List
Subject: Re: Teaching a practical business writing class and looking for
professional rubrics

 

Perhaps you should really stress avoiding verbosity. The difficulty in
avoiding it is amply demonstrated by the following sentence (as well as
in this sentence, in fact):

 

	Using overly verbose/flowery language that's trying to be clever

 

 

;)

 

Regards,

 

Jona 

 

Jona Steenbrink

Technical Writer

Bluefin Robotics

www.bluefinrobotics.com

 

 

 

 

 

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