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I don't see that "more and more Germans" is much better than "more and more people." Both are vague. How much more? 1% more? 90% more? And compared to when? yesterday? last century?

In the introductions of journal articles, you will often see statements like "recently, there has been interest in blahblahblah" but such vague statements are backed up by references to several previously-published journal articles on blahblahblah. The references quantify "recently" and "interest."

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: Where could I get a sports fiction short story published? I've found Stymie magazine, but are there any other magazines devoted primarily to sports themed fiction writing? I think my story stands

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: How to write a summary of an article or any text print? For example I am given an article and asked to write a summary for money; where do I begin? Do I just read the article, and kind

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: I beg to differ with you. For lack of a better all-inclusive word, I call all of that "writing." The actual setting-down of the words is just one part of writing. And even once that

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: First of all, if a fiction book's purpose is "to show what will happen to the world, if something changes," then that's going to be one booooring book. Take, for example, Gattica. You

: Re: When is it acceptable to refer to an undefined group of people in academic writing? Within my students' college writing, I found much writing referring to essentially imaginary, or not well-defined

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: Where could I get a sports fiction short story published? I've found Stymie magazine, but are there any other magazines devoted primarily to sports themed fiction writing? I think my story stands

: How to write a summary of an article or any text print? For example I am given an article and asked to write a summary for money; where do I begin? Do I just read the article, and kind

: I beg to differ with you. For lack of a better all-inclusive word, I call all of that "writing." The actual setting-down of the words is just one part of writing. And even once that

: First of all, if a fiction book's purpose is "to show what will happen to the world, if something changes," then that's going to be one booooring book. Take, for example, Gattica. You

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