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Article #2624Effects of poor writing?
From: Philip Resnik
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1989 13:20
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1989 13:20
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Does anyone know of a study demonstrating that poor quality prose loses potential business? (For example, one could imagine a study showing that, given pairs of prose descriptions, people tend to choose products whose description does not contain grammatical errors.) The view that "effective writing" is good for business is a commonly held one; I'm interested in finding out what has been done experimentally on this topic. Please respond via e-mail (I probably won't see posted followups), to presnik@bbn.com. Thanks, Philip
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!bbn.com!presnik From: presnik@bbn.com (Philip Resnik) Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.cog-eng,sci.psychology Subject: Effects of poor writing? Message-ID: <39131@bbn.COM> Date: 26 Apr 89 13:20:27 GMT Sender: news@bbn.COM Distribution: na Lines: 16