Norman,

I noticed with interest from your Web pages that you are hot on "good
writing practice".  I agree heartily with much of what you said.  For your
enjoyment (and possible use), here's a stunning example of BAD writing
practice which I came across recently in a book called "Research Methods in
Psychology".

"Instead, as we seek operational definitions of the theoretical concepts
that are contained in the hypotheses which we wish to test by means of our
research, we are of necessity having to think simultaneously about possible
ways of measuring these concepts in particular types of settings with
various types of subjects, and thus also have to think about whether we
have access to those subjects and whether it is feasible to collect such
data on an appropriate timescale with the resources which are available to
us in a way that can be analysed by the types of statistics which are
pertinent to testing the hypotheses from which we started out."

Wow!

Jane

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