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Article #2628Re: Effects of poor writing?
From: Glenn Reid
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1989 23:58
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1989 23:58
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In article <39131@bbn.COM> presnik@bbn.com (Philip Resnik) writes: >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.) I discounted this article when I read it. In paragraph one, there was a grammatical error. The parenthetical phrase should read: (... people tend to choose products whose descriptions do not contain grammatical errors.) Cheers, Glenn Reid
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ogccse!blake!uw-beaver!cornell!mailrus!ames!purdue!decwrl!adobe!greid From: greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.cog-eng,sci.psychology Subject: Re: Effects of poor writing? Summary: exactly... Message-ID: <794@adobe.UUCP> Date: 27 Apr 89 23:58:37 GMT References: <39131@bbn.COM> Sender: news@adobe.COM Reply-To: greid@adobe.COM (Glenn Reid) Followup-To: sci.lang Distribution: na Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View Lines: 15