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Subject:Overuse of "It" From:Karen <ekarenski-techwrl -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:45:01 -0700 (PDT)
I have a pet peeve with reports that continually use it, it, it!
I'm looking on the web for good examples for avoiding the usage of this pronoun; however, finding hits on wordiness and overuse of it can confuse the search engines.
Does anyone have any good links for me to distribute to my scientific co-workers?
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