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• Title: There is No Such Thing As a Simple Explanation (Dear Edie)
• Author : Edie Schwager
• Release Date : January 01, 2010
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 56 KB

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Edie has been in a rehabilitation facility since having a stroke last year. She is thrilled to continue helping members solve their grammar and usage questions through her column, although without her valuable resources on hand, her answers are concise. DEAR EDIE: You and I go back a long way in terms of our own relationship and in the field of editing for medical journals and books--in my case, 32 years, and in your case, I suspect, even longer. Would you care to revisit your views on the "slippery slope" of grammar, spelling, and usage during this time? In particular, I see the tendencies of "alphabet soup" and the elimination of articles ("the") to reduce word count, the dropping of commas before words in apposition, and the elimination of apostrophes for words/expressions acting grammatically as possessives (from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma to non-Hodgkin lymphoma; from Wilcoxon's test to Wilcoxon test). Constantly, I see dangling modifiers combined with passive voice to create ridiculous expressions ("Combining the categories and analyzing the data, the results were consistent."), where the results themselves could not combine or analyze anything.

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