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Interactions 1 Writing, 4/e
Cheryl Pavlik
Margaret Keenan Segal

Science and Technology

Unifying Your Writing with Synonyms and Pronouns

Rewrite this paragraph and substitute pronouns and pronominal expression for some of the nouns. You should also try to combine ideas when it is appropriate. There are several correct answers.



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Writing online is different from writing on paper. Writing online looks like writing offline but writing online is not like writing offline. Online writing feels like talking but online writing is not talking. For online writing to be effective online writing must be stronger than writing on paper. Online writing must get the attention of the reader quickly, or the reader will not continue to read. Even email communications are different than hand-written notes. Email is personal. Email is instantaneous. Email is free. Writers who expect to be successful on the Internet need to unlearn the kind of writing writers learned in English class. Writers who expect to be sucessful on the Internet need to learn the quick new language of electronic communication.