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Numbers

Numbers. Numbers. Use Words Numbers beginning sentences--- DON’T DO THIS 60 million years ago dinosaurs ate all the horses in North America. Numbers that can be written in one or two words Forty-four Two. Numbers. Use Words Numbers that can be written in one or two words

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Numbers

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  1. Numbers

  2. Numbers Use Words Numbers beginning sentences--- • DON’T DO THIS • 60 million years ago dinosaurs ate all the horses in North America. • Numbers that can be written in one or two words • Forty-four • Two

  3. Numbers Use Words Numbers that can be written in one or two words • Forty-four • Two • Three million

  4. Basically • Use numbers if you have many numbers, but don’t start a sentence with them. • Be consistent. NO John bought 2 giraffes, sixteen elephants, and 94 teddy bears to decorate the nursery.

  5. The horrors of “official style.”

  6. Nightmare • Business writing • Contracts • It’s like you have to chew your way through a paper.

  7. Also • It intimidates people -Contracts • It’s harder to understand. --Contracts • It obscures the intent of the writing. ---Contracts!

  8. Used to Trick People Except as expressly permitted by Publisher in writing, all photographs with the same subject matter specified in a Work Order that Photographer creates pursuant to an opportunity obtained through that Work Order will be deemed Photographs and will be subject to the exclusivity and all other provisions of this Agreement.

  9. Passive voice • Mistakes were made. By whom??? • Blame or action was avoided by the writer. • Unfortunately, it was taught by people who wanted to sound . . . • Convoluted = deep? Blah.

  10. What is being done by an author becomes difficult to figure out by the audience. The migraine was had by the teacher whose powerpoint slide was made passive by rearranging the sentence.

  11. Goobledegook • It would be extremely tedious, and, in most cases, irrelevant for us to concern ourselves with the atomic or molecular structure of macroscopic objects whose gravitational attraction is to be studied when the object’s mass is essential. • Gravitational attraction depends on mass not molecular structure.

  12. What does this say? • Liquid precipitation on the western Iberian peninsula is primarily deposited on flat, non-mountainous regions. • Coruscate!Scintillate! Massive but comparatively modest in dimensions to others of your type, luminous sphere of plasma held together by gravity!

  13. How to Clean Up • Don’t use extra adjectives—Use strong ones. • Avoidthingslike “it has been said over and over by many different people in today’s modern society now,” and “Every delay, sidetracking, or missed opportunity represents a loss in real and profitable dollars to your company while your entire enterprise sits idle and waiting.”

  14. Goobledegook

  15. Peer-editing paper 1

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