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The Importance of Avoiding Bad Writing Habits
Valerie Friedland is a professor of linguistics at the University of Nevada in Reno. She's also a language expert for psychology today where she writes a monthly blog on language in the wild. Next, we'll talk about nixing the horrid of. Almost everyone has a few bad writing habits that experts can point to and say, yep, I know who wrote that.
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