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Subject:Tech Writing and Will McDonough... From:Charles E Vermette <cvermette -at- juno -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 13 Jan 2003 13:48:12 -0500
For those who don't follow American sports, Will McDonough was a Boston
sports reporter and broadcaster who became a local and then national
figure. He died this week at age 67.
I find a story he related to a colleague very a propos to Tech Writing:
McDonough's editor once asked him to "beef up his prose." He shot back,
"what do you want? adjectives or information?"
Chuck
Charles E. Vermette
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781-659-1836
e-mail: cvermette -at- juno -dot- com
web: http://www.charlesvermette.com
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