Re: social science writing

Subject: Re: social science writing
From: Kit Brown <Silverwnd1 -at- AOL -dot- COM>
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 01:24:42 -0400

I second that. I spend lots of time trying to help the engineers and
scientists at my company see the "active voice light" <or is it the light of
active voice? :-)>. They always tell me, "...but it's how I learned it in
school, so it must be right...."

Drives me crazy, and we won't even get into the misplaced modifiers......

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