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It's fascinating, isn't it, that we so often rail against the decline of the English language; while many of us would certainly agree that the advent of texting and other language "shortcuts" has resulted in our inability to clearly relay our thoughts, this kind of lament has been going on for decades. In 1946, George Orwell (yes, he of Animal Farm fame) wrote the essay "Politics and the English...
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Too many writers (and non-writers) we've worked with over the years fail to use appropriate or effective topic sentences. As you may recall from seventh grade grammar, a topic sentence tells readers what to expect from a paragraph. While the topic sentence doesn't have to be the first sentence in a paragraph, many readers expect it to be and take that first sentence as their "cue" in terms of what the...
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