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Beteiligte: Foley, Louis
In: Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 4, 1974, 3, S. 237-244
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SAGE Publications
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Umfang: 237-244
ISSN: 0047-2816
1541-3780
DOI: 10.2190/xm5y-k8gu-l32r-1480
veröffentlicht in: Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: SAGE Publications (CrossRef)
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<jats:p> A sentence should have from the beginning a definite plan to be kept clearly in view. When a writer becomes tangled in his grammar and goes off the track, we may believe that he started without being sure of what he wanted to say. Henry David Thoreau wrote in 1849: “A sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plow instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.” </jats:p>