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From: greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid)
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Subject: Re: Effects of poor writing?
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Date: 27 Apr 89 23:58:37 GMT
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In article <39131@bbn.COM> presnik@bbn.com (Philip Resnik) writes:
>Does anyone know of a study demonstrating that poor quality 
>prose loses potential business?  (For example, one could
>imagine a study showing that, given pairs of prose descriptions,
>people tend to choose products whose description does not contain
>grammatical errors.)

I discounted this article when I read it.  In paragraph one, there was
a grammatical error.  The parenthetical phrase should read:

(... people tend to choose products whose descriptions do not contain
 grammatical errors.)

Cheers,
Glenn Reid