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  • Create a page, and make sure that the location information for the page says:
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sarahmorris Delete? 0 Feb 16 2009, 4:04 PM EST by sarahmorris
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I don't know how to delete a page. I had the hardest time getting the page in the right category!
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melissalmartin Gender Neutral language 0 Feb 16 2009, 3:59 PM EST by melissalmartin
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I like controversy so I chose to make my rule about gender and pronouns/ word choice. The rule/s I am adding to can be found on p60 of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style and p 34-35 of Williams Style .
"Never use a pronoun such as he or she unless 1. there is one subject being referred to. 2. and it is known the gender of that subject or 3. if multiple subjects there is only one gender, such as the women. Otherwise use they or their. And for words like policeman or mankind, substitute them with words such as police officer or humankind."
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mkinnell Elipses 0 Feb 15 2009, 11:32 PM EST by mkinnell
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I decided to create a rule based on my own writing style. I tend to write in a style that represents my thinking…so I wrote about sentence flow and the use of ellipsis so...

When writing for comic effect, sentence flow should be interrupted with ellipsis...duh!
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