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Subject:Re: Redundancy & obscurity patrol From:Sarah Lee Bihlmayer <tecscrib -at- SIRIUS -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 16 Jan 1996 17:32:03 -0700
On Jan. 12, Cathy Quinones wrote:
>would anyone be interested in sharing tricks that
>help keep one's writing streamlined, clean and honest?
My favorite trick is to remove one word at a time until the sentence no
longer makes sense and editing tenses, singulars/plurals, adding/removing
commas, etc. appropriately as I go along. (This technique can also produce
a good deal of hilarity under the right circumstances.)
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