Re: Action Item: 3.3 Proposal (Writing Style)

At 05:12 PM 3/12/2001 , Anne Pemberton wrote:
>William,
>         A stab at it ....
>                 Unless the content is quoted or copyrighted, it should be readable by the
>"average" user as defined by the newspaper/news media (to cover listening)
>... which is sorta about 6th - 8th grade level ... 

All material is copyrighted. :)  This rewrite proposal fails
immediately on those grounds.

Also, you completely ignore the technical aspects required by
some writing -- you made no exception for works that require
specific pre-knowledge.

Finally, you don't address how to handle works that are SPECIFICALLY
meant to be unclear, such as poetry or sarcasm.

--Kynn

Kynn Bartlett <kynn@reef.com>
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Received on Monday, 12 March 2001 22:05:05 UTC