RE: what to look for in a Tech Editor

Subject: RE: what to look for in a Tech Editor
From: "Mark Baker" <mbaker -at- ca -dot- stilo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 16:18:20 -0400


> I do think that analyzing and generating grammatical sentences
> using formal rules probably needs to be introduced in early
> adolescence, but I'm willing to be persuaded that people who
> first encounter the subject in college or later can pick it up.

Formal rules for generating grammatical sentences are like formal rules for
predicting the movements of the stock market:

1. Everybody has a set.
2. Each set is different.
3. Each person belives fanatically in his own set.
4. None of them work.


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References:
RE: what to look for in a Tech Editor: From: Dick Margulis

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