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Subject:Re: What would you do? From:"." <sfarmh1 -at- SCFN -dot- THPL -dot- LIB -dot- FL -dot- US> Date:Tue, 30 Jul 1996 14:13:20 -0400
Ruth makes an excellent (albeit possibly unintentional)
point about asking a TW job candidate for *samples.*
Who knows who controlled what as the doc was created?
john glenn <sfarmh1 -at- scfn -dot- thpl -dot- lib -dot- fl -dot- us>
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...do not make a statement that cannot be easily
understood on the grounds that it will be understood
eventually. (Hillel)
On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, Ruth Glaser wrote:
> Several of the errors you noted were unforgivable. However, I would
> recognize that corporate style guides, editors, managers, etc. sometimes
> make us write in ways we would rather not. A bulleted list of sentence
> fragments, all terminated with periods could have been dictated by a
> style guide...
>.... The use of periods with sentence fragments,
etc. may be more indicative of a corporate style, rather
than a writer's ability.
> Ruth T. Glaser
> ruthg -at- goretek -dot- com
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