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April 01, 2012
On the Papers: Whose Story Is this Sentence? Directing Readers’ Perceptions of Narrative
As a writer, you can control whose story a reader percieves you to be telling in any given sentence.
George D. Gopen
Please take a moment to rank the following three sentences by quality of writing. Which is best? Which worst?
(A) The defendant deprived the plaintiff of his contractual rights by refusing to forward the shipment.
(B) The plaintiff was deprived of his contractual rights by the defendant’s refusal to forward the shipment.
(C) The refusal to forward the shipment by the defendant deprived the plaintiff of his contractual rights.
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