Every Word Counts
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O say can you synonym
One of the things I do regularly on this blog is share my rewrites of museum labels. This rewrite was sparked by my blog post Sins and Synonymity. I wanted to eliminate a type of synonym use that is particularly confusing to English language learners. While I was at it, I made a lot of…
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Do your labels suffer from “The Curse of Knowledge”?
In this article on the source of bad writing, Steven Pinker advocates for formative evaluation, without ever using that phrase. The Source of Bad Writing The ‘curse of knowledge’ leads writers to assume their readers know everything they know Original publication in The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 25, 2014 Free version on Steven Pinker’s…
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