Cutting Your Own Hair
This anonymously authored Note in the Harvard Law Review has gotten lots of attention recently.
Here’s a bit of it:
Now, suppose Ms. Anonymous went over to The Writing Center and asked for some help. What would have happened to the above?
It might have turned out like so:
Less wordy; less convoluted; more pleasing to readers, and the author seems like a fairly good writer.
If you’re like most, you just can’t function as your own editor.
It’s like trying to cut your own hair.
6 June 2008 at 18:14
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