I don't profess to be an expert in any field. One particular realm where I'm really in the dark, though, is Wall Street. (Not quite as in the dark, thankfully, as one of my very good friends who will remain unnamed, who actually told me three days ago that he never knew Wall Street was actually, in fact a street).
This blurb in The Onion made me smile, because sometimes even the most meticulous reading of The Wall Street Journal or The New York Times yields nothing more than sheer frustration.
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An admitted academiaholic embraces her inner geek in New York City
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About Me
- Tracy Bratten
- I just graduated from New York University with my Master's degree in Journalism in General and Investigative Reporting, with a focus on Magazine Journalism. I graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004 with a B.S. in Advertising and a B.A. in Spanish.
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- "Why I Write" by George Orwell, from Collected Essays: Journalism and Letters of George Orwell
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
- On Writing Well by William Zinsser
- The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar by Mark C. Baker
- The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
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4 comments:
NEW YORK YIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Entertaining!!!!!!
No way! Did they really print that?
TWENTY TWO lines in only four sentences... I'm impressed.
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