RE: Short Phrases

Subject: RE: Short Phrases
From: "Earl Cooley" <shiva -at- io -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:30:50 -0500


Eric L. Dunn wrote:
> Can you give a reference to the source of this information?
>
> Are you sure it's three sentences, or is it three ideas/principles?
>
> In any case sounds like another incarnation of the dubious
> rule of seven that instead of being a used guideline it's
> used by poor writers as a replacement for intelligence and
> judgment. These 'rules' may be applicable to some obscure
> situation designed for a study but nothing in this world
> can be blindly applied to all situations.
>
> Regardless, both boil down to trying to apply precision
> to something that hardly needs clarifying. "Say/Write
> what needs to be said/written. No more, no less."

Here's a bit on that topic:

The Myth of "Seven, Plus or Minus 2":
http://www.webreview.com/2002/01_14/strategists/index01.shtml

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e=sc^3 (shiva -at- io -dot- com) Earl Cooley III



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