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- From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Quote or simile for "success?"
- Date: 12 Aug 92 23:43:20 GMT
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Two of the best bits of advice I've ever gotten (and passed along):
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- * Consider throwing away your first paragraph -- you've usually
- put a much stronger lede in the second.
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- * Write a snappy conclusion if it comes naturally, but if it doesn't,
- just write "30" after the last paragraph of the main body and hand
- it in.
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- In many cases those bits of advice for writing can be adapted to speeches.
- There's an equally pithy and valuable bit of advice to speakers that can
- also be adapted by writers: "Be forthright; be brief; be seated."
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- Knock 'em dead,
- --Joe
- "Just another personal opinion from the People's Republic of Berkeley"
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