RE: Rule about not using possessive?

Subject: RE: Rule about not using possessive?
From: Amanda Nance <Amanda -dot- Nance -at- VITALPS -dot- COM>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 06:19:38 -0700

My psychology professor seems to think that giving something a possessive is
anthropomorphism. (Anthropomorphism is not allowed in psychology research
manuscripts.) I don't know if I agree with him, but he is an editor of a
peer-reviewed psychology journal, so there may be something to it...

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