RE: Rules for Expository Writing

Subject: RE: Rules for Expository Writing
From: "Dick Margulis" <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:35:02 -0500

Jane,

Thanks! I'm sure the original list quoted Johnson, exactly as you have it. I was paraphrasing from memory.

The other addition that I recalled belatedly, from somewhere in the middle of the list is:

Avoid excessive modifiers and qualifiers, which weaken your argument. Do not use the two weakest modifiers in English, "very" and "nice."

Dick

"Carnall, Jane" wrote:


>
>"Read over your compositions and, when you meet a passage which you think is
>particularly fine, strike it out." (Samuel Johnson)
>


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