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Subject:Re: Teaching kids to write bad[ly] From:"Arlen P. Walker" <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- CORE -dot- CORP -dot- JCI -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 17 Aug 1994 10:17:22 -0500
>I think both parents and educators should teach kids to write badly as
>part of writing well.
One of the most valuable rules I learned had to do with writing my first draft:
"If there are two ways to say something, and neither way seems exactly
right, choose the one which seems *least* right. It will be easier to
revise the passage later."
Have Fun,
Arlen
arlen -dot- walker -at- jci -dot- com
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