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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese

may I suggest the following in addition to No. 10:

13: Read the style guidelines. There are soooo many authors who have to be advised to use 3rd person writing instead of 1st.

14: Read the style guidelines. There are soooo many authors who have to be advised to use 3rd person writing instead of 1st.

15: see #13. 'I' and 'we' seems to be *really* frowned upon.


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Martin Harper

Is the new #10 better? smiley - smiley


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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese

Oh, that's no replacement, just an additions -- some people seem to need that taught with a hammer smiley - smiley

I'll go still one step further:
Rule #16: if you don't want to follow rules 13/14, then rule #10 applies.


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Martin Harper

sadly, there's no tag which causes a large mallet to come out of the computer screen and slap people upside the head... smiley - sadface


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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese

too sad, really. smiley - smiley


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