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Subject:Re: brush up editing skills From:"Guy L. Pace" <pace -at- COOPEXT -dot- CAHE -dot- WSU -dot- EDU> Date:Thu, 29 Aug 1996 08:09:06 -0700
At 08:43 AM 8/29/96 -0600, Miki wrote:
>Ron Rhodes asked how to get practice on editing. The absolutely best
---snip---
>time, but it's a helluva lot more fun than working through a paper test.
Alternatively, take a job editing a community newspaper. Not only will you
have lots of fun--for near-starvation wages--and get lots of experience
editing, you will get mucho feedback from the community any time you make an
error!
;-)
Regards: Guy L. Pace (pace -at- wsu -dot- edu)
Computer Support Analyst II
Washington State University
AMA#606009 DoD#0974 http://coopext.cahe.wsu.edu/~pace/
"If you don't know what you need (Windows) NT for, then you probably don't
need it." Bill Gates
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