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: Jona Steenbrink <jsteenbrink -at- bluefinrobotics -dot- com>
To: Leonard C. Porrello <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:19:22 -0600

Perhaps you should really stress avoiding verbosity. The difficulty in
avoiding it is amply demonstrated by the following sentence (as well
as in this sentence, in fact):

> Using overly verbose/flowery language that's trying to be clever


;)

Regards,

Jona


Jona Steenbrink
Technical Writer
Bluefin Robotics
www.bluefinrobotics.com





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References:
Teaching a practical business writing class and looking for professional rubrics: From: Rob Hudson
Re: Teaching a practical business writing class and looking for professional rubrics: From: voxwoman
RE: Teaching a practical business writing class and looking for professional rubrics: From: Leonard C. Porrello

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