Quick detour

[stormqueen280]

I still owe you guys a lengthy post about my trip to Foz, but I had to get this out of my chest.

Economists are lousy writers.

I am currently proofreading a series of articles written by economists, and quite frankly they are worse than lawyers. Why do you need a 13-line paragraph to write something that fits in two sentences? Or even one? "Small

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[chippers87]

Lousy writing has been the bane of my graduate school experience of late. It's like information professionals are trying so hard to make librarianship a science that they must pull out the thesaurus to write ten paragraphs of absolutely nothing at all. Dense writing helps no one.