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The ABC of Style: A Guide to Plain English, by Rudolf Flesch. Harper, $4.95 Hello Janie gee its hot here you like this swishy paper? Mom gave me just tons ofitsoI’ll write home next fall she says. Daddy had a cow and said all that weighs a ton and we’ll need a truck to ship it to State and it was a silly present but Mom says it isn’t everyday you graduate from Fillmore “Hi.” She doesn’t care if paper is heavy and neither do I its not surprising I mean its trees isn’t it.

And guess what my Comp showed the “most improvement” in the semester and I got the prize you could of knocked me over with a paper clip. Miss Pallas even made a little speech about toiling upward through the night and she gave me this book its by Rudolf Flesch called the ABC of Style to help me keep on improving at State. Its simply fasinating such a comfort its about write like you talk I never thought books could be fasinating like that.

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The ABC of Style: A Guide to Plain English, by Rudolf Flesch. Harper, $4.95 Hello Janie gee its hot here you like this swishy paper? Mom gave me just tons ofitsoI’ll write home next fall she says. Daddy had a cow and said all that weighs a ton and we’ll need a truck to ship it to State and it was a silly present but Mom says it isn’t everyday you graduate from Fillmore “Hi.” She doesn’t care if paper is heavy and neither do I its not surprising I mean its trees isn’t it.

And guess what my Comp showed the “most improvement” in the semester and I got the prize you could of knocked me over with a paper clip. Miss Pallas even made a little speech about toiling upward through the night and she gave me this book its by Rudolf Flesch called the ABC of Style to help me keep on improving at State. Its simply fasinating such a comfort its about write like you talk I never thought books could be fasinating like that.