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Re: Teaching a practical business writing class and looking for professional rubrics
Subject:Re: Teaching a practical business writing class and looking for professional rubrics From:voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net> Date:Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:34:17 -0400
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>wrote:
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> - Failure to re-write for clarity unless one is Isaac Asimov. (He
> claimed to be able to do clear writing in a single pass.)
I seem to recall that Asimov claimed he never did more than two passes
through a story, and the second pass may have been to create his final
version to submit to the editor. I don't remember if he ever used a word
processor to write his stories, either.
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